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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-12-07 05:58
What about 148 bass clarinets (including two contrabass clarinets)? A year ago it happened. Actually, it was supposed to be in the Guiness record book. Does anyone have the newest one and can check if it is there?
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Author: stevesklar
Date: 2006-12-07 09:22
I'll have to listen to Jaws again to hear that tuba part. what a story, thanks Belflare
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2006-12-07 15:23
Didn't John Fletcher do the Jaws? He was principle tuba with the LSO when Williams was recording all his soundtracks in the 70s.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2006-12-07 15:38
One of my high school band directors, who also directed the town band, had quite a flare for showmanship, decided to put on a summer concert featuring "76 Trombones"....next year was "110 Cornets"....how does one top that? With "Two Tons of Tubas" the following year! This took place in the mid 1970s...great memories....and one heck of a sound !
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-12-07 18:24
Tubenet has lots of great anectdotes. I did not know Jaws was a tuba. I thought it electronic.
I did know that the voice of the Mothership in Close Encounters was a tuba, and that it was Tommy Johnson. What a legacy.
So who did the bassoon on Alfred Hitchkok's TV show intro??
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-12-07 21:59
Golly! I would love to hear Johnson's recording of The Flight of the Bumblebee" . . . that would have been enough to make the Tsar Saltan roll over in his grave! 128 Bass clarinets, 76 T-bones, 110 cornets, etc would also be worth listening to, but I think I'll pass when someone puts together 101 piccolos or almost any number of accordians. Eu
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Author: SVClarinet09
Date: 2006-12-07 22:52
Eugene, my director listened to Tommy Johnson at workshop last year. He said he played flight of the bumblebee in like a minute and 43 seconds or something. He said it was faster than just about anyone and that for him to be a tuba player was even more interesting
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-12-08 03:43
WoW! I tried to play Mexican Hat Dance on my bass clarinet and probably didn't make a minute of it. Of course I'm hardly an accomplished player -- not much more than a beginner -- but it was enough to give me some idea of what it would be like to play a real busy number on the BC. To do an even faster one on a tuba . . . WoW!! Eu
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