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----- Original Message -----
From: PerssoN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Tiny monster
> Please stop sending your mails to me !!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> >
> > =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/>
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> >
> >
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