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Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:27 pm**

Bob1062 wrote:I believe I read somewhere that the movie Signs had MULTIPLE cimbasso and contrabass trombone players, to the point that they had a hard time finding enough people in England to do it.

How many tubas? Who and what did they play?

Bob"likes monster movie soundtracks"1062

Actually, Signs was recorded right here in L.A.

Schultz on the basstrombone.nl forum wrote:I know for a fact that the soundtrack to Signs (score by James Newton Howard) has contra bass trombone in it , cos i was lucky enough to be in LA and met up with Bill Reichenbach and got to sit in on a days recording. In this one bit with these huge pedal E's, Phil Teele was playing bass bone, and Reichenbach and Jim Self were both playing cimbasso. The composer came up to the podium and asked for one bit to cut through a bit more, and asked Reichenbach to change that bit from cimbasso to contra, which he just hopped over to and pulled out of it's case( You should see the amount of gear these guys carry with them to these sessions) As i was there they made me Jim Self's roadie, and i lugged his cimbasso and bass bone too and from the carpark!

Must be nice having roadies!!

...Dave

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:47 am**

If you like huge movie scores, check out "Soldier". I think I read somewhere that there were 10 cimbassos? Also "Planet of the Apes." I believe there were 16 trombones.

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:09 am**

Soldier brass section:

details here:
http://malcolmmcnab.com/gallery/18.html
and here:
http://malcolmmcnab.com/gallery/names19.html

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:37 pm**

Bob1062 wrote:I know I heard this somewhere, does anyone know what movie it was?

Do you have anything else to go on? Timeframe? Composer? Context for your having heard this information? Was it an actual conversation you heard, an article in a magazine, an online posting? Anything?

I did a bit of Googling around to see if I might get lucky - no dice.

...D

Posted: **Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:40 pm**

Bob1062 wrote:I thunk I read it on the internet, probably on a trombone website. I remember it being somewhat recent. Damn what was it.....

I picked up the Schultz quote on Ben van Dijk's bass trombone website by running a few keyword searches through Google. In fact, one of the results that kicked back was this very thread. If we have a few kernels of information to work with, perhaps we can get something going...

...D

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