[Trombone-l] Fw: Jazz Cimbasso

[Eliezer Aharoni]

> The Cimbasso is actually a low version of a valve (bass) trombone, so it 
> is cylidrical (euphoniums, like tubas, cornets and flugelhorns, are 
> conical).
> Cimbasso is a regular brass instrument, and the difficulty mainly lays in 
> the pitch and one's ability to adopt to the basic tonality of the 
> instrument.
> Most contemporary Cimbassi are pitched  in C, made mainly in Germany and 
> have rotary valves, and are very much like tubas in range, but in Verdi's 
> time they were mainly in F, mainly Italy -made and had upright valve. They 
> were also used in rural wind bands and also called " Flicorni Bassi 
> Gravi".
> The modern ones are in upright position and have an adjustable "leg" so 
> that they are easy to fit to the player's position.
>
>  The ones in upright position
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Pliskin" <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com>
> To: "Trombone List" <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Jazz Cimbasso
>
>
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>> Is playing cimbasso all that different from playing other valved brass 
>> instruments?
>>
>> I know it's odd shaped and it seems to be more cylindrical than 
>> euphoniums.  But can anyone low brass valve player, who can afford one, 
>> pick up a cimmasso and play it?
>>
>> DanP
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>>> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:49:37 +0100
>>> From: Timothy.A.Richardson at EUR.ARMY.MIL
>>> To: swan325 at earthlink.net; trombone-l at samford.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Jazz Cimbasso
>>>
>>> Bored hearing the melody?
>>>
>>> Never!
>>>
>>> You know the old saying: I know the melody. And you know the melody.
>>> And I'm paying you to play the melody, so play the freakin melody.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Eric & Candice Swanson [mailto:swan325 at earthlink.net]
>>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:46 PM
>>> To: Trombone List
>>> Subject: [Trombone-l] Jazz Cimbasso
>>>
>>> OK, I can't resist sending this. I happened across the cimbasso page
>>> and found a link to a guy from the WDR Big Band in Cologne playing jazz
>>> cimbasso. He's not bad. If fact I think he's my favorite jazz cimbasso
>>>
>>> player of all time. If you get bored hearing him play the melody, skip
>>> up to about 3/8 of the way through to hear his jazz playing.
>>>
>>> http://www.quesonegro.de/I_cover_the_waterfront_cimbasso.mp3
>>>
>>> Eric Swanson
>>>
>>>
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