Re: [Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-31 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 5:03 pm -0400 8/30/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: Nick Carter and I have been discussing the possibility of a new edition of my book, which I hope will become possible within a year, and would include this and numerous other recent developments--and second thoughts. As a vote for the publication:

Re: [Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-31 Thread Javier Ruiz
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 c

Re: [Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-31 Thread Javier Ruiz
Sorry, I was speaking about extended marimbas in my previous post, as I suddenly realized from the Andrew´s one. Javier > 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

Re: [Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-30 Thread Andrew Stiller
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

[Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-30 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
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 n