[Dixielandjazz] Strange Instruments

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Dave:

Nope that is not even close, this thing is a full blown Brass Sousa 
with a slide trombone connected, appears as if the back of the Trombone 
also is patched into the tubing of the Souza,  perhaps there is a hand 
controlled valve to determine whether you want to play out of the Bone 
bell or the Sousa  I have no idea .   I'll bet Dan Augustine will fly 
over there and Buy it or kill the guy and steal it for his museum if he 
sees it :))

I will send you a photo off list.

Cheers,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: tubaman at tubatoast.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Strange Instruments

   Well, Tom

I didn't see anything exactly like what you are describing on that
link, but there is a kind of a bass trombone tuba hybrid called
cimbasso  ( see http://www.jrdhome.plus.com/cimbasso.htm )
that is sort of like what you might be describing. They mostly make
an appearance at special classical performances - not a "regular"
brass instrument by a long shot! (and I don't think there has ever
been a jazz cimbassoist.)

But this may be some sort of home-brew instrument only found in
Finland - who knows!

Dave Richoux

On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:08 PM, tcashwigg at aol.com wrote:

> Sousafonipasuuna


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