Ladies and Gentlemen, I have not forgotten about the contra survey ( who owns their own and what do they play), but I did not get much feedback and would...
Patricia L. Gunter
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Feb 1, 2002 8:04 pm
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does anybody have any information on french contrabassoon?...
Howdy, Wow, just try buying a new Buffet bocal in North America if you want some tough searching <grin>...Years ago, at an IDRS convention in Canada I played a...
Please be more specific, what is it that you want to know? Titan ... From: "rubicon9" <rubicon9@...> To: <contrabassoon@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday,...
Hello there... I have always considered the long d-natural fingering (with the use of the right hand, the "normal" on my Heckel contra) "French", for some...
The University of Illinois (Urbana) has a Selmer French-system bassoon and a Buffet-Crampon bassoon and contrabassoon (lowest note C) in their bamd instrument...
Hi David Chatterton plays on a Buffet contra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra here in London, although only on certain occasions as he also uses his...
Gerald Corey of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa may have some info on this as well as he plays the french bassoon with the orchestra in french and...
SMVance ( Tootlepipes@...) writes: *>PS: I am interested in an antique contra, like the early Heckel in *>the Stearns collection at the University of...
While we're on that subject, anybody know what an old contra like the ones pictured in that ad go for? I have an old low C (which is believed to be a...
Titan Rodick
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Feb 9, 2002 3:00 am
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Howdy Titan, I have found a C bell "ne plus ultra" for doubling if you can get away with it...I recall doing this recording session of a Lester Trimble...
I am trying to decide on a profiler for making Contrabassoon reeds and would like advise. From the various sources, I think I have decided on either a Popkin...
Dear J., Well, Howdy! Mark Popkin does make (and sell) contrabassoon reeds of legendary quality... As for his profiler, it has good versatility in adjustment ...
I play contra at Tennessee Technological University. We have a popkin profiler and I have made over a dozen contra reeds on it. The ones that I didn't mess...
Hello all: been reading faithfully and have enjoyed some of the discussions. I have a question though. I'm doing Mother Goose and I would like to know what...
Benjamin Hoyle
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Feb 11, 2002 12:53 pm
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I've played this solo a number of times and no way is it a B natural. ... Matthew B. Morris, Sr. Assistant Professor of Bassoon/Music Theory College of Fine...
Matthew Morris
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Feb 11, 2002 1:31 pm
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The key signature is in F, and there is no natural sign at that high note, so you have to assume it's a Bb....
ArtGudwin@...
Feb 11, 2002 2:16 pm
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Big Controversy, My Heinie! Your conductor is blowing smoke out of a bodily orifice not intended for such! It has GOT to be a B-flat, not only owing to the...
gbur
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Feb 11, 2002 3:17 pm
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Bruce is absolutely right - there isn't a shred of justification for a b natural. I've played MG about a thousand times (slight hyperbole...) and no conductor...
Hey Ben, If you played a high B natural toward the end of Mother Goose during an audition, they would probably ask you to play it again and make sure to play...
Juan! Thanks for the "backup," buddy! Please say howdy to Carl N. for me, and drop me a line some time and let me know how you like Atlanta. gbur@... Bruce...
gbur
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Feb 11, 2002 7:22 pm
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Juan! Thanks for the "backup," buddy! Please say howdy to Carl N. for me, and drop me a line some time and let me know how you like Atlanta. gbur@... Bruce...
gbur
gbur@...
Feb 11, 2002 7:22 pm
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Hi all, re the contra profiler question: I have used a Popkin machine for both bassoon and contrabassoon reeds since about 1993. I have recently had it...
nick.lander
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Feb 11, 2002 9:37 pm
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Yeah Bruce! Go get 'em bi guy! ... such! ... Boards." Mark Twain ... beautifully, more devotedly than before." Leonard Bernstein ... Matthew B. Morris, Sr. ...
Matthew Morris
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Feb 11, 2002 10:15 pm
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Here's your interval c to b natural: http://mfile.akamai.com/3171/wm2/muze.download.akamai.com/2890/us/us_ wma20/0400/48826_1_07.asx very French. very wrong...
What's to be controversial? My score clearly shows a Bb. Robert Howe...
Robert Howe
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Feb 12, 2002 3:02 am
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... What's to fight about? Stravinsky wrote D and Db in this solo at different times, in different Suites. I read the story once (probably apocryphal, but ...
Robert Howe
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Feb 12, 2002 3:06 am
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Hello, Does anyone know how many bassoon players are used in Mahler 2? I've just been given the 4th/contra part, but what it looks like to me is that it's for ...
