Some fun playing on the cimbasso

[bone-a-phone]

Something fun I ran across today. Good for a smile!

[bone-a-phone]

Love that sound, but didn't that trumpet sound like it had a mute in it?

[bloke]

GREAT funk style applied to the contrabass trombone!

For this September, I’ve schmoozed my way into playing the bass trombone part of Schubert IX - “C Major – Great“ on mine, as the trombone section will be playing musical chairs, that month. It will be interesting to discipline myself to stay within Schubert dynamic and stylistic limitations playing that thing…and I think it will be interesting to have an E-flat trombone, a B-flat trombone, and an F trombone formulating an orchestral trombone section.
Sometime, this coming year, I’m playing a Beatles cover band orchestra pops concert on the cimbasso - whereby almost all the music on the concert is tunes that the four of them wrote and recorded after the 1969 break-up.
With most orchestral pops music (and sure: there are M-A-N-Y exceptions), the tuba just sounds too much like…well…a tuba. Of course, most Broadway music (before the 1970s) make up many-many of the exceptions to that.

I enjoyed the video, thank you for linking it, and I hope more people will link more similar videos here.

[bort2.0]

Love that sound, but didn't that trumpet sound like it had a mute in it?

That audio and that video do not go together. Music videos are music videos, I suppose...

[tclements]

I played cimbasso in a dectet (4141, like Philip Jones), on the 9th part, with a bass bone right above me on the 8th part (large bell Mirafone 186-CC on the 10th part). REALLY like the sound and complement to the whole ensemble. The challenge is to remain "in" the ensemble and NOT poke a hole through the sound. Fun & challenging on many levels.