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Hello, Just wanted to drop a note from this aspiring sarrusophonist - I'm searching for a horn (investigating local defunct music outlets and schools). I...
Steve Weinert
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Feb 19, 2001
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... Welcome to the list, Steve! It's pretty low-traffic, sometimes with weeks passing between posts, but when it is active here it can get pretty interesting...
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Feb 19, 2001
3:51 pm
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There is currently a reed contrabass (aka contrabasse ad anche) listed for sale at eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1417474571), ...
Grant Green
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Mar 20, 2001
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... From: "Grant Green" <gdgreen@...> To: <Sarrusophone@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:36 PM Subject: [Sarrusophone] Reed...
Peter B Koval
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Mar 21, 2001
3:28 pm
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=1422725963&r=0&t=0&showTutorial=0&ed=987635602&indexURL= 0&rd=1 (www.ebay.com - item #1422725963) Looks...
Steve Weinert
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Apr 14, 2001
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... Yes, this is a rothophone: essentially it is a sarrusophone in the shape of a sax. Should sound almost identical to a sarrusophone of the same pitch,...
Grant Green
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Apr 14, 2001
1:30 am
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Here is what the owner replied: Hi! Thanks for your interest in the Rothophone. I believe it is in E flat and yes I have played it. It takes an oboe reed so it...
Steve Weinert
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Apr 16, 2001
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More from his cited reference: Rothphone or Saxorusophone Hanslick's criticism of new names in connection with every improvement to a musical instrument was...
Steve Weinert
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Apr 16, 2001
1:58 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Sarrusophone group. File : /Not quite...
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Apr 16, 2001
2:02 am
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Sarrusophone alert! Not a contrabass, but at least a tenor, at eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1431856973), opening bid $2K. ...
Grant Green
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May 18, 2001
5:23 pm
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Just goofing around over lunch... I've just uploaded a version of Charles Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" arranged for Eb contrabass sarrusophone and 4 bass...
Grant Green
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May 22, 2001
9:46 pm
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... A very interesting sound here, Grant. I'm hard pressed to say whether it sounds better than some of the stuff I've done with a sarrusophone soundfont......
Bob Greenwade
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May 23, 2001
3:56 pm
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A Sub-Contrabass Flute!! http://www.gwr.org/flutes/articles/double-contra.htm (At least I though it neat!)...
Steve Weinert
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Jun 2, 2001
1:08 am
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... I did too. I'm left wondering how tall this girl is, and whether she got a sound out of the thing. Grant, did you pass this on to your contrabass fans?...
Bob Greenwade
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Jun 5, 2001
4:29 pm
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... Hi Bob, Actually, I didn't, because they saw the same picture last Fall (see http://www.tubastuff.com/dcflute.html and ...
Grant Green
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Jun 5, 2001
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... <http://www.contrabass.com/2000/2000-08-28.html).> Well, in a way you actually did, then; you just did it before it showed up here. :-] ... You're going...
Bob Greenwade
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Jun 6, 2001
4:32 pm
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... I think that Eva Kingma may still be making contrabasses, although US$12K sounds more like the price of her open-hole bass flute. Definitely not a PVC horn...
Grant Green
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Jun 6, 2001
6:54 pm
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Speaking of interesting (even though non-sarrusophone) rarities, it appears that Heckel may revive the piccolo heckelphone for a short run. The following...
Grant Green
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Jun 6, 2001
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Again not exactly Sarrusophonic, but while buying a Cello for my eldest son (12), the elderly gentleman we dealt with mentioned that he thought he recongized...
Steve Weinert
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Jun 7, 2001
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http://lachesis.caltech.edu/jayeaston/unusual.html...
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Jul 5, 2001
12:10 am
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... In our small city in Wisconsin, population 5000, there is a photo at the public library from the 1920s showing what I'll assume is a contrabass ...
Jim Quist
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Jul 5, 2001
12:24 am
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Jim & I have figured out we live within an easy drive of each other. We're doing a bit better for double reeds in my County - each Elementary School in the...
Steve Weinert
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Jul 8, 2001
2:19 am
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... Bass ... Yeah!! This 1919 Vintage Conn Bb Bass Sax in now in my workshop!...
Steve Weinert
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Jul 14, 2001
2:38 am
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Sarrusophone group. File : /Not quite...
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Jul 14, 2001
12:52 pm
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Just ran across a page while web surfing (http://www.internationalfilmmusicservices.com/ifms.playerofmonth1.htm ) which mentions that Eppelsheim (inventor of...
Grant Green
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Jul 17, 2001
11:17 pm
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The Tubax is at: http://www.usahorn.com/new/rare/rare.html# neat video clips! ... (http://www.internationalfilmmusicservices.com/ifms.playerofmonth1.htm ... ...
Steve Weinert
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Jul 18, 2001
2:51 am
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... I haven't, though it's cool to note that someone besides Orsi is now making sarrusophones. Hopefully Eppelsheim will start expanding into other sizes as...
Bob Greenwade
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Jul 18, 2001
3:43 pm
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There is a Gautrot Eb contrabass sarrusophone for sale right now on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1449633003). Looks a lot like...
Grant Green
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Jul 24, 2001
6:59 pm
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... Hi, Grant, The high D alternate key is present on this instrument--like the Conn model, it is operated by the right thumb and is situated on the rear. What...
Peter Boris Koval
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Jul 25, 2001
12:50 pm
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Here's a Conn Eb contrabass sarrusophone for sale at ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1462063056 Best of luck! Grant ...
Grant Green
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