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Post by peaceloveoboe on Sept 20, 2006 15:48:08 GMT -5
Eek, NINE OBOES?! Awesome, if they're all in tune, which the four of us at District Honor Band decided was right next to impossible. Plastic oboes suck.
At camp we did the Bach chorales with 3 oboes and an english horn. We were all in tune, and it was AMAZING. I also got to play an oboe d'amore (the apostrophe is incorrect, I know) briefly, but can't say I'm in love with it. If anyone ever thought the oboe was nasal, they've never heard an oboe d' amore.
I get to play english horn for my youth orchestra concert! It's fun stuff, but for a short person it takes A LOT of air...
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Post by emello3 on Sept 20, 2006 20:05:09 GMT -5
at the brentwood band festival i saw a flugal horn solo. my friend had to restrain me from chasing the soloist off the field, tying him/her in the band trailer and making off with the horn
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on Sept 20, 2006 20:31:00 GMT -5
I still think the accordian is the wierdest....
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Post by clarinet361 on Sept 23, 2006 10:38:32 GMT -5
English horn, Contra Alto clarinet (the contralto), Contra Bass clarinet, Eb clarinet (the little evil thing to tune)
The perks to being in a college band- you see more instruments. ;D
I have also seen a Contrabassoon.
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Post by friskylurker on Sept 24, 2006 12:48:47 GMT -5
my friend played contra bassoon last year for lincolnshire posy, among other things. posy was the reason we had it, though- apparently they rotate it around yearly between 5 or so schools.
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Post by Scott Benson II on Sept 25, 2006 6:52:49 GMT -5
Alto trombone. I played it last year for my brass methods class. Key of Eb, reads alto clef. It was a grand old time. Thing is, it's pretty short, so the positions are closer. And since I spend most of my time on a bass trombone...well, the outer slide came off a few times by mistake.
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Post by BassoonBabe on Sept 26, 2006 12:29:32 GMT -5
A student from New England Conservatory is a clinician four our band, and he brought in his Alto Trombone. I got to play it...interesting adjustment.
Oh. And I've played contrabassoon(so therefore, i've seen it..) on two different occasions. Once at FSU's Double Reed Workshop (they had two. I got to play the better one in a bassoon choir arrangement of "O, Danny Boy") and the othertime was this past January. I was in the Symphonic Orchestra, and we were playing Hindmeth's Symphonic Metamorphisis. It was pretty awesome..
Oh. and in our Wind Ensemble, we have an English Horn, a Contrabass Clarinet, and occasionally a soprano sax when it calls for it.
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Post by dylanmyers9 on Oct 5, 2006 22:18:17 GMT -5
haha. Eb Soprano Flute at a band camp in Green Bay WI this past august! Db Piccolo too. Oboe Mussette, Basset Clarinet as well.. well, they werent used (Eb Flute was) during rehearsal but in instrument ensemble performances our last full day of camp.. twas fantastic. some girl had a cocobola flute headjoint if that counts?
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Post by arcticiceburg on Oct 6, 2006 3:38:25 GMT -5
English horn, Contra Alto clarinet (the contralto), Contra Bass clarinet, Eb clarinet (the little evil thing to tune) The perks to being in a college band- you see more instruments. ;D I have also seen a Contrabassoon. I agree that you see more of these odd instruments in college bands. We have contralto clarinet and English horn in wind ensemble. After I pass upper division standing I've been told I can start playing "Tiny," our bassoon studio's contra. ;D I'm excited.
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Post by thebassplayer on Oct 22, 2006 3:54:29 GMT -5
let's see..we have a piccolo trumpet, c melody sax, sopranino sax, curved soprano sax, english horn, alto and bass recorders...i think that's all
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Post by hornprincess on Nov 3, 2006 22:52:00 GMT -5
Well at school, we've got an Eb (soprano) clarinet, an Eb contralto clarinet (that always breaks), a really aweful soprano sax, and my BD has a soprano trombone. One of my friends has a pocket trumpet that he bought off Ebay, haha. Oh, we've also got a part for finger cymbals, but we've lost one of them, so one of the percussionists hits the other finger cymbal with a triangle "beater". In the orchestra, we've got an English horn (the girl who plays it is absolutely unbelievable), we had a contrabassoon last year, and we've got 19 cellos, if that counts for anything.
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Post by contrachick87 on Nov 5, 2006 12:26:05 GMT -5
Those are two of the coolest instruments I've ever seen!!!!!! Anyway, my best friend plays Eb contra-alto clarinet. A trumpet player in my band plays flugalhorn every once in a while. Also lots of PMEA festivals have Eb soprano clarinet players.
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Post by contrachick87 on Nov 5, 2006 12:28:04 GMT -5
i play the contra alto clarinet well i use too til i graduated*cries* and needed to sit on a book in order to play it b/c im to short. and the pic tuba is the coolest thing ever
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Post by freshmanflute on Nov 5, 2006 20:49:22 GMT -5
our school has a contra bass clarinet does that count??? the funny thing is that no one bothers to take it appart so it just stays in one peice in the instrament closet
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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Nov 8, 2006 17:59:35 GMT -5
I have seen an alto flute, Eb flute, and bass flute and a soprano sax. it looks like a cross between a sax and a clarinet, so fun...
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