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RE: Contra contraption

Author: Willie
Date: 1999-08-16 04:23

Same here Kontragirl! I play what we can find in the music pile. If I don't have a contra part I'll look for bari, but I have found that tuba and strind bass parts are even better sometimes if ya know how to transpose it. Its easy, just figure out what the key is for Eb by going up three notches on the cycle of fifths and read the staff as if it were in treble clef. In most segments,I can go an octave lower to more depth to the piece. As for the instrument, it IS a piece of junk. My daughter found it in the back bandhall storeroom where it was used as a doorstop, baseball bat and lord knows what else. It took me almost 2 years of on & off tweeking, bending and even putting saddle oil on the rock hard pads to get it to play. I'm shaking the trees now trying to find my own so I can fix it right.

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