Please stop sending your mails to me !!
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From: "Jack Campin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Tiny monster
> >> My current exercise in instrument abuse is playing Scottish tunes
> >> on the Black Sea fiddle or "kemence"
> > So it won't be long before Blackfriars have a few of these in stock,
> > then?
>
> Wouldn't be a bad idea - they're good value for the money, extremely
> well made and nice tone (the strings and bow you get with them are
> invariably shit, though). I got mine in Istanbul years ago, but only
> just got round to doing anything with it. Problem is that if even a
> Turkish instrument shop can't set them up correctly, how likely is
> Blackfriars to sell them in playable condition?
>
>
> > I have just resisted buying a 'bombarde' from Scayles for £24.95.
> > Pakistani made, oboe reed and neat little conical bore pipe turned
> > from something resembling rosewood in one case, with a couple of
> > keys and the rest finger holes. For the money it looked excellent
> > value, but they could not tell me what temperament or indeed what
> > sort of scale it played.
>
> I suspect this is nearer to a zurna than a bombarde, i.e. the design
> ethos is that having the fingerholes in the right places is for wimps;
> you half-hole, shade-finger or lip down to get the right pitch.
>
> It shouldn't have an oboe reed - a pipe chanter reed is more like it.
> You don't hold the reed between your lips.
>
>
> > They suggest it 'sounds like a snake charmer'
>
> Charm is not quite the word. They probably use them to clear cobras
> from cricket stadiums before test matches.
>
>
> > might be just up your street, Jack, they have two in the little window
> > to the right of the entrance with the low whistles, tin whistles and
> > stuff.
>
> I've seen them. I can't play high-pressure wind instruments at the
> moment, waiting (...and waiting...) on some plastic surgery to fix
> that. A couple of short tunes on a clarinet or practice chanter is
> about my limit for now, otherwise I'm stuck with flute-family things.
>
>
> > Any idea if these bombardes have any applications?
>
> If you have moles in your garden, point it down one of their holes
> and they won't stop running till they hit Australia. Or have your
> dentist point it into your mouth to descale your teeth.
>
> The one instrument in this family I do fancy is that Catalan keyed
> tenor shawm thing. I've played an ordinary tenor shawm and it's fun
> but a bastard to play beyond the diatonic scale.
>
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>
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