Altieri Contra Gig Bag - For Sale The Altieri features padded bocal pouches which some other gig do not. Good padding, Back Pack Straps, separate pouch for...
Passing this along... DQ ***** Subject: Stolen Bassoon-Please forward Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:09:42 -0800 (PST) Hello Everyone, I know I have not been in...
Hi, everyone: I'd like to ask your opinion about music analysis and how you use it as a teacher and performer. We all do it as performers/teachers, but I'm...
Dear friends and colleagues, I've had a couple of contra players email me recently asking where they can get the Bruns Contrabassoon Concerto, op. 98....
Hank, I will do this, but I will wait a few days. I feel that if they get many identical messages at near the same time, they will assume it is a plan and...
Arthur Grossman
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Nov 13, 2006 4:12 pm
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Dear Group, I will also compose a message but wait to send it later this week. I will have my colleagues do so as well (maybe next week). Best regards, ...
Dear All, I hate to rain on our parade, but it is very unlikely that Hoffmeister will publish a piano reduction to the Bruns Contrabassoon Concerto. Don’t...
Hello Harry and all, Thank you for your observations about the hurdles to publishing contrabassoon music. All of what you say is true, and is the reason only a...
... Hmmm...At the peril of sounding ad Hominem (re: someone in the music publishing industry) this just *might* be a risky way of going about this. (ie -...
I'm a college music student and I have begun to play more and more contrabassoon but I'm nervous because I just got my first paying gig with it subbing for a...
In a message dated 11/14/2006 4:30:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... At the risk of asking the obvious, are you lifting LH 1 for G & G#, using the first octave...
Hi, everyone: With the huge amount of music that is out-of-print for a variety of instruments, I wonder why publishers haven't yet begun using the current...
Actually I know of a publisher who does this, and I have downloaded and printed music from it. It works just fine. Arthur ... From: Richard Ramey To:...
Arthur Grossman
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Nov 15, 2006 12:46 am
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Yes, I know of one, too. I'm just curious why this isn't an industry standard? Seems to make sense....
Hello everyone, Last year I did a one year appointment as director of concert music at MMB Music in St. Louis. They have an extensive catalog of mostly late ...
... At the risk of asking the obvious, are you lifting LH 1 for G & G#, using ... flat? ... clear or ... horn? ... Thanks for responding. I do actually lift...
In a message dated 11/17/2006 6:03:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... It's sort of hard to diagnose from afar. The first thing I'd suggest is to try thinning...
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... I am in the market to buy a Contra for my College Student Son. We bought him a Fox 240 a few years back. Now he wants a Contra. Is this Amati worthwhile? I...
Why pay an extra thousand or more for this one? I am sure others on this list will be able to give more detail on this, but the opinion of the amatis seems to...
I just played a new Amati and was surprised that it played so well. I would have to do some tuning work on the contra to be able to play it a group, but it...
As an instrument repair tech for the last 15 years I can echo the 'you get what you pay for' sentiment. A 4, 5 or 6K contra is not going to be a good ...
I'm in the fortunate position of having had not one, but *two* conductors ask me for suggestions for pieces to program that use contra. (How often does that...
A local amateur player has asked me how much I think his Adler Contra with low A extension would be worth. It was made in 1976. As the market is so small out...
