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Post by bariclaribob on Mar 25, 2008 10:58:22 GMT -5
Ok, it's not a sighting, but I think this thread fits best.
I took a saxophone master class at a jazz conference, and the sax teacher was talking about playing in professional pit orchestras. He said there was a guy in the pit for West Side Story who had a book with 11 instruments: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax, oboe, English horn, bassoon, flute, piccolo, and hecklephone, which he said is like a giant, beautiful oboe that sounds like a big BLAAAAAAAAAT.
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 25, 2008 14:52:41 GMT -5
Heckelphone. It's like a giant cor anglais with bassoon fingering.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 22:13:27 GMT -5
Dude, sweet. The cor anglais is the only high woodwind I like.
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 26, 2008 16:36:01 GMT -5
Yes, it is an amazing instrument. I'm going to take it that you consider alto clarinet a low woodwind. (raised eyebrow)
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Post by chriskostyshyn on Mar 30, 2008 0:32:58 GMT -5
I don't think a Heckelphone has bassoon fingerings, even though it is by Heckel. Bassoon fingerings wouldn't apply to the heckelphone very well, I think it has english horn fingerings to be honest.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2008 9:54:44 GMT -5
I don't know anything about the alto clarinet. I have a friend who played (he fasttracked and is now in college) the contraalto clarinet, and he was a "low guy" and hung out and tested with the low brass. I consider bass clarinet and lower and tenor sax and lower to be low woodwinds--where's your range?
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 30, 2008 15:53:45 GMT -5
The alto clari goes from a concert Eb (C)- octave over top line F on a Bb clarinet- to low concert F# (Eb)- octave below low G# on a Bb clari- low G# on a bass clari.
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 30, 2008 15:58:27 GMT -5
And from everything I've heard, bassoon is or at least at one point was on the Heckel fingering system. The cor anglais is the same as the oboe- which should be conservatory system. But i'll do my research and see.
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Post by altoclarinets on Mar 30, 2008 16:16:32 GMT -5
Ok- research done. It is on the oboe fingering, it's made b the Heckel Company in Germany. Heckel was the one who designed the bassoon fingering system though. Neat site: www.contrabass.com/pages/heckel.html
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Post by Clariиәrd ♫ on May 26, 2008 21:12:56 GMT -5
my 6th grade BD played picc. trumpet and played INCREDIBLY. we have contrabass clarinet for clarinet choir every year also have alto and bass flutes for flute choir does Rachel count as 'rare' (eb soprano clari)? she was sure treated like an oddity when i used her for Sleigh Ride last winter...
edit: i just wanna add--that contrabass clarinet reed is the size of a 2x4, i swear, so it makes me even more curious as to the size of a subcontrabass sax reed.... =/
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Post by friedrice2003 on May 27, 2008 19:32:42 GMT -5
My great-uncle (if thats the right term) just found my great-grandfather's silver susaphone.
He played it in the rudy valie band back in the 30s. It was made fo solid silver and weighs about 400lbs. I haven't seen it yet but he is going to rescue it from the highschool where it is getting left to rot in a corner because noone can pick it up and might be put into a music museaum. The thing is just stupid big and heavy...Its a fill size concert susaphone. When he played it for the band they need to get 3 guys to go put it on a stand for him before the performance along with the percussion equipment.
the neat thing about it though is that when we moved to canada he had a jewler engrave that it was build in canada so he wouldn't ahve to pay any silver tax on it at the border. But then when he came back he had another jewler engrave a giant flower on it over the other engraver's mark and make it look like it was made in USA so once again no silver tax. the thing is pretty neat and the whole family is glad that it was finally tracked down and is going to be saved from the highschoolers.
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Post by altoclarinets on May 28, 2008 19:04:33 GMT -5
got to tango with an Eb trumpet, a cor anglais and a bass flute today... Am hunting down our rumored 3 contra clarinets. Have no idea where they are. Note to self: Call former BD who now teaches at other high school and ask him where they put them.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2008 19:48:25 GMT -5
AC, since you are the closest thing we have to an expert on weird clarinets, are contrabass and contralto the same?
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Post by MoogsandherFlute on Jun 1, 2008 22:53:17 GMT -5
I'm just going to list 'unusual' instruments that I have been in bands with.
Alto flute, English horn, Eb clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, contralto clarinet, contrabass clarinet, contrabassoon, soprano sax, piccolo trumpet, mellaphone, bass trombone... I think that's it.
I play bass flute in my flute choir. I've been around one of my professors when he played the alto trombone.
I'm on the lookout for an Eb soprano flute. Just to say I have played one before!
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Post by altoclarinets on Jun 2, 2008 16:48:51 GMT -5
I got to mess with the contra clari and the Eb trumpet again today!
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