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Re: Contra bassoon

Author: Chris P
Date: 2021-12-17 00:29

I'm currently hiring my Amati contra to the local university for a production of 'A Christmas Carol' where I'm also playing cor anglais in, so it's good to hear the contra player has really taken well to my contra. He's definitely rattling the building with it!

The last time he had use of a contra was in a concert where we played Beethoven's 5th in February 2021 before the world ground to a halt, but that contra was a tired old Adler belonging to the county and it was lucky I brought my contra reeds along with me as I had a go on it and the LH main action wasn't working well due to a missing key cork. This was just before the concert and the only thing I could to to get it working was to pull up a piece of carpet thread and wrap it around the linkage so the split LH1 mechanism worked.

I had a glance at the current cost of contras and the Amati has shot up considerably. Also the Fox contra is far more expensive than the Mollenhauer.

I'm not sure of the current cost of Adler, Moennig, Moosmann or Wolf contras, but here's the current UK prices from Howarth's site from low to high:

Amati - £10500.00
Mollenhauer - £28650.00
Fox 900 - £36795.00
Fox 920 - £41075.00
Püchner -£43395.00

https://howarthlondon.com/instruments.aspx?family=809&type=558

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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