Re: Calling all Cimbasso players!


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Posted by If... on March 17, 2004 at 20:19:49:

In Reply to: Calling all Cimbasso players! posted by Chris on March 17, 2004 at 19:27:45:

...you're going to use it for standard cimbasso repertoire (Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, etc), then F is the logical choice. Most of the notes in this repertoire are from low C up into (and sometimes above) the staff. This is the F cimbasso's best register, and some of the CC's worst. If you want a valve contrabass instrument to play contrabass trombone parts (Schoenberg, modern movie score type stuff, even Wagner), then a CC would play better from about pedal G on down.


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