[Dixielandjazz] Double-Belled Euphonium & Safrrusophone

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

OK:


The first guy who has one and can play the hell out of it and wants to 
be in My Marching Band is welcome to come join us, but ya gotta be able 
to March too :))   well stroll anyway, we don't do no real marching, it 
just ain't Hip for jazz guys, so we just cooly STROLL, :))

CHEERS,

TOM. WIGGINS
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass band

-----Original Message-----
From: jobriant at garlic.com
To: tcashwigg at aol.com; dhs2 at peoplepc.com; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 6:53 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Double-Belled Euphonium & Safrrusophone

   Tom Wiggins wrote, in part:

> ... they also featured their reed player
> Pete Main on a Sarusaphone solo that has to be
> the gawd auwfullest sounding instrument I
> have heard in a long time.   Not Pete's
> playing but the sound of the instrument
> which must have been the early prototype for a
> Bari sax.

Actually, the Eb Contrabass Sarrusophone was developed with the intent 
that
it would replace the Bassoon in marching bands.

Jim O'Briant
Tuba
Gilroy, CA



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