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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-04-25 21:41
I just had to use a ridiculous number of napkins to mop up the drool...
James
Now I just have to win the lottery. Or sell my current bass. (And somebody else's!)
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: donald
Date: 2007-04-25 22:21
bloomin' heck
that looks very exciting...
a friend was just telling me last night that she had tried one of Mr Foxes Reform Boehm clarinets, and that she had absolutely loved it. The NZSO bought a pair of Fox Basset horns lat year, they are great. I'm sure this Bass Clarinet won't disapoint!
donald
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2007-04-26 02:51
But that's not really a new bass clarinet, is it? web.archive.org has a version of that page dated November 2 2005, with a (different) photo, different price (was lower) for the low C, and no convertible model or u-tube for the bell:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051102134714/http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/Bass_Clar.html
Which is not to say the new photo, the convertible option, and the u-tube aren't cool stuff. The higher price is less cool, but even the lower price was way, way, way outside any budget I could ever come up with, and drooling is still free!
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-04-26 03:07
...I was drooling over the original instrument and pictures a couple of years ago...
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-04-26 14:50
Vunderbahr - Considerable revisions/improvements, far beyond our well-standardized B C's. I "like" my old Selmer 33, but could fall in love again, will have to review finances, tho. Tobin and Dave say it well. I didn;t read any commentary tho on the highly revised neck "geometry", which could help, IMHO, the "music-viewing" problem [some of us may have] with the present, highly-curved ?lenthly? necks. I discussed a different curvature neck for my Selmer alto cl with DS briefly, thinking that something like the Leblanc "swan" neck [on their ?1980's? altos] might improve the head-tipping angle AND somewhat raise the body to provide a minimalized "reach" for the right hand. Any discussion of this will be greatly appreciated. Perhaps SF has already given us this ?relief" .. Thots? don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2007-04-27 01:22
It seems rather odd to get so emotional over a photo that discloses almost nothing about the instrument, along with the sort of hype that is associated with every new model on the market, from professional to trash.
Drooling over fantasy? OK.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-04-27 01:25
Gordon (NZ) wrote:
> along with the
> sort of hype that is associated with every new model on the
> market, from professional to trash.
I know Steve personally and his instruments aren't "hyped". They don't need to be. They literally speak for themselves.
> Drooling over fantasy? OK.
His instruments are far from fantasy ...
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Author: Merlin
Date: 2007-04-27 01:28
I don't own any of Steve's clarinets, but I have played a few of them. They're great instruments.
I've also had the privilege of hearing him play, both live and on record, as well as playing alongside him. Heck, he's a nice enough guy he's even turned pages on a recital I played.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2007-04-27 11:01
I was going from what was presented, at face value, not from any personal acquaintanceships that contributed added perceptions. :-)
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Author: graham
Date: 2007-04-27 12:31
Interesting reference to many French style basses "fighting back" in the upper register. I agree that they can do, and this was a point discussed in a recent thread when various people said that basses were as easy to play in that register as regular clarinets. S Fox does not seem to think so (apart from his German version perhaps).
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-04-27 21:29
A good point, Graham, TKS for recognising/speaking-of it. Yes, even with DRK, I still dislike the B C's clarion, with those basses I've had experience WITH. My English major wife says "A preposition is a poor thing to end a sentence With. "There I did it Again" . I hope someone will be able to comment from experience with both the German and French B C's, since S F seems to make a point of the desireability of small-bore [as compared to Selmer/Buffet ?] horns. Comments ? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-04-30 17:25
I am familiar with the German bore argument from the Wurlitzer bass perspective. Many international bass players covet the Wurlitzer for the projection and the more soprano like bite in the sound. If the Fox does this in a Boehm tuned down to American pitch (and similar quality) this would indeed be a welcome addition for those looking for THAT sound.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2007-04-30 19:03
Koo Young Chung asked "Any reader plays Fox Bb clar here?"
Close. I play a Stephen Fox basset clarinet in A, part of which he designed for me (low D, Db and C right-hand thumb-keys configuration).
Excellent instrument.
I got it presuming I would use it only for the Mozart Concerto and Quintet but now contemporary composers have started writing for this instrument (basset clarinet in A).
My contemporary ensemble didn't know know where to start looking for such an instrument when they got the music for a new piece by the British composer Thomas Ades. They were knocked sideways to learn I actually owned this instrument they had never heard of.
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Simon Aldrich
Clarinet Faculty - McGill University
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Principal Clarinet - Orchestre de l'Opera de Montreal
Clarinet - Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
Buffet-Crampon Artist/Clinician
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