[Trombone-l] Jazz Cimbasso

Thu Mar 13 08:10:56 CDT 2008

Yes and no.  Certainly get a sound.  But cimbasoo is a finicky beast.  The nice ones play more like tubas than bass trombones.  The bad ones play like bass trombones it a stuffed bison stuck in 'em.

Really, like any double, it takes time to get the kinks out...  especially pitch wise!

J.c.

---- Daniel Pliskin <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com> wrote: 
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> Is playing cimbasso all that different from playing other valved brass instruments?  
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> 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?
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> 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
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> > Bored hearing the melody?
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> > Never!
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> > 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.
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> > -----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
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> > http://www.quesonegro.de/I_cover_the_waterfront_cimbasso.mp3
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> > Eric Swanson
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