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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2003/03

From: Guy Mallery <wa2msu@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] Playing contrabassoon
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:03:26 -0500

Howdy,

There was an audition ten years ago (or so) the "list"
wanted particular passages from "Till Eulenspiegels" in
which both the contra, and the 3rd bassoon excerpt were
identical...(!) Neither were remarkably difficult
separately, but my, what fun! to work them up
for two instruments at the same time... Fortunately,
the practice of including that excerpt seems to
have ended there...

cheers,
Guy Mallery
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contrabassoon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchbassoon

--- "shannonh (Shannon Hill)" <shannonh@-----.org> wrote:
> A side question/remark: I find it extremely difficult to make sudden
> switches from contra to bassoon (but not the reverse). When playing
> contra+bassoon on Mahler, my bassoon sound is considerably worse than
> normal. It's almost entirely because of the change in reeds and
> embouchure. Do other people notice this as well? Aside from the lack of
> quality instruments available to me, this has always been one of the only
> drawbacks to playing contra.
>
> -Nat