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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-06-20 15:14
From deep in the armamentarium of the woodwind section:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=884532771
For those days when the brass section has driven you bonkers. This mama is said to be the loudest thing ever invented with a reed.
It's especially loud with one of those leetle single reed mouthpieces like those made for doublers who have to play oboe.
Maybe it can still be had for a few more dollars.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-06-20 15:19
Jim -
The Contrabasse a Anche stirred up quite a discussion on the Contrabass board. There's a great description in Baines, Woodwind Instruments and Their History, which your description shows you're familiar with.
Baines says that the holes are all closed, and each is opened by a separate key. They're so big it doesn't matter whether any holes lower down are open. Baines says the dynamic range is from fff on up. It's too loud to play even in Italian bands.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Douglas
Date: 2002-06-21 13:10
You may be laughing about using it in a marching band, but that actually did happen. My late father-in-law, primarily a bassoonist, played one of these in the Univ. of Mich. marching band in the late 20's into the 30's....as yes, the good old days.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-06-21 16:59
When I was in the wind ensemble at the Univ. of Maryland, we did one piece that had a contrabass sarrusophone part -- it was played by our bassoonist/contrabassoonist, and I thought it sounded pretty good and not unreasonably loud --- and I was sitting right next to him.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-06-21 22:11
David -
The contrabasse a anche is a completely different animal from the contrabass sarrusophone. See Baines.
Ken Shaw
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2002-06-24 21:54
The ad is headed, confusingly enough:
CONTRABASSE à Anche (SARRUSOPHONE)
The picture is a Contrabasse à anche. Compare it with the pictures in Baines; it's obvious from the wide bore, and the strange keywork. A sarrusophone has big gaps between its tubes, and keywork similar to a sax.
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