Hello Tim: I was out at Fox Products last week tuesday and was talking to Chip Owne about it. The instrument seems very odd in its design. The toneholes are...
In a message dated 4/1/02 12:52:21 PM, taylor_chad@... writes: << Hello Tim: I was out at Fox Products last week tuesday and was talking to Chip Owne...
... My understanding is that the contra-forte was designed by Guntram Wolf in collaboration with Benedikt Eppelsheim, and that the bore is essentially ...
Hi All Regarding the Kontraforte . . . 1. Please remember that the intstrument Herr Wolf brought to Morgantown was a PROTOTYPE! that he had completed a scant...
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In a message dated 4/1/02 4:37:19 PM, gbur@... writes: << Bruce Gbur Mollenhauer 617 P. S. Tim, I'm a little curious. . . I was the top free-lance...
Hello group, and especially Bruce Gbur, Guntram Wolf's new instrument represents a very interesting tour-de-force by a very interesting and competent...
Chip Owen
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I understand that Arthur Grossman will have a Wolf ContraForte at the Curtis Institute on April 21. I do not know if the gathering is open to the public or...
Dear Kevin, I received an invitation from Arthur Grossman to attend the Wolf showing at Curtis. He said that the day had been put together by himself and...
Hi all, The recent postings by Chip Owen and Grant Green point to a previously unrecognized conclusion. Wolf's Contraforte is essentially a contrabass ...
Robert Howe
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Oops! I see that my "insight" on the Sarrusophone origins of the Contraforte is not original. That will teach me to read all my mail first, before...
Robert Howe
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An open question for the Mollenhauer players in the group---while at the 2000 Contrabassoon Festival a discussion took place as to the incompatability of...
I'm so glad somebody mentioned the tuning slide...it reminded me of a question I've been wanting to ask for a while but can't remember when I'm at ye olde...
Zach Millwood
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Dear Zach, this is a very interesting subject. I in practice manipulate to tuning slide with great frequency depending on the work or the specific passage and...
I found by experiment that the recommendation by Chip Owen, that the slide should be pulled out quite a bit for A440 tuning.....If the slide is pushed in, the...
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Since I have been playing both oboe and bassoon I find that I really like rollers on certain bassoon key clusters. Recently I have been considering adding...
Hi all Just to clarify one major point . . . yes, the Kontraforte may be designed with larger bore and tone holes reminiscent of a Contrabass Sarrusophone, but...
gbur
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... Well, certainly Wolf (and, I understand, Eppelsheim) have left their own marks on the contra-forte, in terms of modernizing the keywork. However, my...
For those of you who will be attending the demonstration on the contraforte I would be especially interested in getting feed back. I plan on purchasing one...
Juan: Thank you very much for the details. I expect Fraser will try to attend. With his permission, I will try to post whatever comments I hear from him. If...
Duane: A few observations of my own here. You are testing the limits of my expertise, but I believe the following is accurate. I play a Fox. I have two Fox...
In a message dated 4/3/02 12:55:38 AM, kdamon@... writes: << In my own case, I found the "open notes" D, E, F both in the staff and the octave above to...
Sorry to clog the list tonight, but this is a very interesting observation. Do any of the other pros out there use the tuning slide in this way? Juan, I...
My comments here are just my observations; I have no connection monetarily or otherwise (in a manner that would be beneficiary to me) with any competitors of...
Zach Millwood
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I am using a Puchner no 1 contra bocal. The Mollenhauer bocals have big problems with overblown (middle) C, and Heckel bocals didn't do much either (though I...
