Speaking of King Kong ... that low BBBb has all the aural essence
of how I've always imagined a flatulent thousand pound Gorilla would
sound.
Dean
On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:38 PM, John Howell wrote:
While I may be very wrong, I have to say I've never seen or heard
of a bass trombone with an "extra-wide bore." Nor have I ever
heard or read any trombone except the BBb instrument called a
"contrabass." [...]
If what you say is true, I wonder whether it's a European thing.
It certainly doesn't show up in catalogs of standard band/
orchestrals instruments. Could you provide a website URL?
I already did, in my previous posting. To repeat: go to http://
www.contrabass.com/pages/cbtbn.html for photographs of numerous
such instruments, submitted by the players who use them.
FWIW, that same page has a photo of a 17th-c. contrabass sackbutt,
together w. a playback file of its bottom BBBb
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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And,
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