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I performed last with the Ohlone Wind Orchestra (October 2012). They were playing a transcription of Holst's "The Planets", so I sat in on heckelphone (all the bass oboe parts were carried over...

I know Ohlone makes recordings: don't know if they record every concert.

I'll be performing on heckelphone with the Ohlone Wind Orchestra (Fremont, CA) on Sunday, 10/14/12, playing Holst's "The Planets" (transcribed for wind ensemble). For the rest of the concert, I'll be...

Is that upholstery? :shock:

Right now, "Bassoon on Fire" by Michael Rabinowitz :-)

Metallica? You guys should check out Doctor Nerve. At least they have bass clarinet and soprano sax players as regular members ;-)

A 5 string (usually) extends the range to low B. This not only lets you play a few steps lower, but also lets you finger patterns a bit higher up the neck, where the frets are closer together.

Here's another (aimed more at jazz ensembles)...

http://www.contrabass.com/pages/fines.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAaaAVJr9zg

Did anyone tell you about the altissimo vent on the bass clarinet? You (probably) have a small hole pierced in the middle of the LH1 key pad (where your left index finger goes), with a smaller key...

Let's not confuse the basset clarinet with the basset horn -- they are two different instruments. The basset clarinet is just a soprano clarinet (in C, Bb, or A) with range extended down to C. The...

Great find!

But looks like 3 baris, 1 bass to me...

Just a low Bb, reverberating into the void...

Just consider it shorthand for "Very very probably (to a statistical almost-certainty) the first bass saxophone quartet in the observable universe" ;)

The Deep Schrott CD ("One") is now available. There is a link on their webpage (http://www.deepschrott.de/), or you can go straight to the label (http://www.poise.de/), and order using PayPal. I'm...

In my student days, I used to carry a flute in my backpack when I flew. Apparently, it looks a lot like a pipe bomb on the xray machine...

The Dayton Miller collection also has an octave piccolo (i.e., 8va). It has a fairly crude wooden body, with keys spaced out enough for normal fingers: the pads are too close together for human...

News to me! Heckel still makes heckelphones, and Guntram Wolf makes a bass oboe (to low F!) called the lupophone, but as far as I know, Orsi is concentrating on clarinets and (soprano) oboes these...

Emerson, with straight head.

Let's see...


Hiking: my wife and I belong to a very well-organized hiking club of about 300 members. They schedule day hikes every Saturday, most Sundays, and lesser hikes on Wednesdays and...

Looks like an alternate G#, and an Eb bis key (pad on top of pad). Interesting!

It really depends on just what horn you have. The Selmer and Leblanc contras have completely different bore diameters: the tenons may be interchangeable, but the results are not.

I like the Fobes...

As far as I know, Leblanc is not making any low clarinets at present -- even basses. I understand that there are plans to reintroduce basses in another year or so, and a "redesigned" contra a year or...

At my high school, excess trumpets were bled off into euphs, horns, and tubas, while excess flutes became bass clarinets and bassoons (I led a section of 5 bassoons -- nice, in a band of about 70...

Basically, there are three different bore diameters, in ascending order: the Selmer (& Bundy) Eb contra, the Leblanc & Vito Eb and Bb contras (they're all the same), and the Selmer Bb contra. My...