Hey Contra List: Has anyone on this list played the 2nd Bassoon/Contrabassoon part to Video Games Live orchestra show? If so, please write to me privately at...
Roger SOREN
chinsoft@...
Jun 2, 2007 12:24 am
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Hello everyone, A few weeks ago I took delivery of a new Wolf contra. It has some custom key work and other details. It's a lovely horn! I now need to sell my ...
Interesting about the bocal attachment to use regular contra reeds. I did not know about that, nor that there are several reed makers for CF now. Who are...
Arthur Grossman
artg@...
Jun 6, 2007 3:30 pm
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Sorry, I sent a message to the list intended for Henry Skolnick. I apologize. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Arthur Grossman
artg@...
Jun 6, 2007 4:25 pm
3184
Hi, It's become necessary to ship my kfg to the IDRS conference. (Plan A has fallen through). I'm planning on using FedEx. My questions to you all out...
Just a shout out to everyone, my new piece I composed for the Contraband concert has been sent to Harry and I look fwd. to hearing how it turns out-- I am...
Hello Nora, I've shipped contras several times in the last months. I've used FedEx in the past, but now find DHL is less expensive and every bit as reliable....
Hello Nora; I have used UPS many times to Canada and both UPS and DHL to Europe. If your instrument is packed properly you should have no problem. I would...
Dear Mr. Fast: I was fascinated by your photo of the Bradka contra in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien. The thumb-side keywork looks essentially French...
Where can we see these photos? Dave Brook ... From: tootlepipes To: contrabassoon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:40 PM Subject: [Kfg] A question...
Langwill lists sub nomine "Bradka, Wenzel" a 22-key contrabassoon (1888), Vienna, 352 Could this be the same instrument? There only 7 keys on the thumb side,...
Just checked the new photos: there are 12 finger keys for a total of 19. Note also that the thumb E key is a ring, to represent the open hole of French and...
Is this a "one-off" [prototype], or a production model you could order from a catalog (not that contabassoons were mass-produced like contrabass clarinets)?...
There is no confusion between the two Bradka contrabassoons. The one I posted pictures of is the old looped-crook design and has 19 keys. It was built...
Thank you! ... posted pictures ... between 1850 and 1900, ... Museum in Vienna. ... four-fold design with ... the LL book does ... contra with the new ... ...
There may be confusion in my reference to "Langwill": I referred to his An Index of Musical Wind Instrument Makers 5th Ed. p. 18, 8th listing. My memory of the...
Friday night at IDRS2007 finished up in Ford Theatre with a bang (actually 19 of them, perhaps a Guiness World Record). Ithaca New York was blessed by the...
So excited to see this posting.. Thanks Charlie and thanks so much all of you that played :) -- I can't wait to hear the tape and if any of you folks want to...
It was a hoot to play in the Contraband. There's something about playing a part that is written almost entirely in treble clef, then realizing that it's only...
Lew, Thanks for your input! I've forwarded it to the group. Have a great summer... v/r Guy Mallery ... Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 7:11 PM Subject: Hi from...
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