Bernard Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wil Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not much bluegrass repertoire for baritone recorder, I guess, eh Jack? > What's a baritone recorder? I only know Tenor and Bass in that sort of > pitch.
He means a greatbass in C; mine is a Kung, about 20 years old. There's a picture of me with it on my website, taken at Sandy Bells where Wil saw me playing it. I use it as a sort of wind-powered cello in quiet Scottish sessions. As soon as anybody turns up with an accordion, forget it. I might also take my Romanian cobza along but I haven't got very far with it yet (functionally, it's a miniature acoustic fretless bass guitar but more in-your-face than that suggests). The last time I went to this bluegrass event I took my washboard and a Turkish G clarinet (which I can't play any more). The clarinet worked quite well; used selectively on darker and heavier pieces, playing in the viola range, it doubled the fiddle an octave down, acting as a texture-thickener (musical xanthan gum?). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
