At 19:15 27.08.2009 -0400, Ray Horton wrote:
Two separate instruments were developed in the latter 1800s - the
BBb slide contrabass trombone for Wagner and the BBb valved
trombone basso - which has come to be labeled cimbasso - for
Verdi. I have not seen an historical example of the latter
Arrgh! I thought I was covering myself, and not opening up this huge
can of worms, by saying Verdi's valve contrabass trombone has come to
be labeled 'cimbasso.'
I should have said it came to have the older, confusing term of
uncertain origin 'cimbasso' often attached to it.
As long as
At 07:32 28.08.2009 -0400, Ray Horton wrote:
As long as we are this far OT, Howard, to me, according to Meucci,
the real kicker is that, in Verdi's suggestion of an ophecleide
(if his valve contrabass trombone were not available), ophecleide
by this time may actually refer to the pelittone,
http://www.musikhaus-syhre.de/html/body_ophikleide.html
http://www.orsi-wind-instruments.it/tuba.htm
Klaus
--- On Fri, 8/28/09, Howard Weiner h.wei...@online.de wrote:
From: Howard Weiner h.wei...@online.de
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: cimbasso
To: finale@shsu.edu, finale@shsu.edu
Date
...@online.de
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: cimbasso
To: finale@shsu.edu, finale@shsu.edu
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:15 PM
At 07:32 28.08.2009 -0400, Ray Horton
wrote:
As long as we are this far OT, Howard, to me,
according to Meucci, the real kicker is that, in Verdi's
suggestion
: Howard Weiner h.wei...@online.de
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: cimbasso
To: finale@shsu.edu, finale@shsu.edu
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:15 PM
At 07:32 28.08.2009 -0400, Ray Horton
wrote:
As long as we are this far OT, Howard, to me,
according to Meucci, the real kicker
