In the tiny island where I live you can find at least 10 bass marimbas. But not ten years ago, when there was only one, privately owned. Never seen those detachable things though...
Javier Ruiz, Tenerife, Spain (2,034 km2, pop. 400,000 hab.) > Hello. I hope you will pardon this poll of the list concerning availability of > bass marimbas. Andrew Stiller's Instrumentation book lists them as extremely > rare and normal ones with extensions down to A (from the normal c) as 25%. > > But in the years since he wrote the book, my impression is that normal > marimbas with extensions down to A or even all the way down to C have become > more common. And even that the lowest octave on such marimbas is detachable. > Can anyone confirm or deny? > > Thanks, > Robert > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
