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Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:25 am
by J.c. Sherman
Proving these are supposed to sound like trombones! This is sweet! Who's the cimbasso player? Anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sSnLmJ ... ture=email" target="_blank
J.c.S.
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:09 am
by djwesp
I think this is Thomas Røisland. Great guy, great player! People may know him from Valkyrien brass.
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:28 am
by Bob Kolada
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:11 pm
by bort
Even better when you turn on the vuvuzela button on YouTube.

Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:30 pm
by poomshanka
OMFG! I can't stop laughing. Awesome!!
Thanx for sharing...
...D
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:51 pm
by tubaknut
It is indeed Thomas Røisland, Solo Tubist Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
He's a good player!
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:54 pm
by ZNC Dandy
That is AWESOME! Thanks for the links. The piece sounds familiar, anyone know what it is?
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:06 pm
by Alex F
Oh my . . . . .
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:17 pm
by poomshanka
According to the guy doing the gig, it's for some Norwegian black metal band. Epic!
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:38 pm
by MKainuma
Oh yeah. Shred. Nice playing. Nice Rudi F cimbasso. @Adam - fwiw, the slide on top with the long throw kicker is for the 5th valve.
Morris Kainuma
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:45 pm
by MKainuma
Adam, I haven't heard of a Rudi cimbasso with a main slide kicker. I don't know if it's something they would install. The 2nd and 5th valve kickers seem to effectively handle any intonation concerns.
Cheers,
Morris
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:24 am
by Tubadork
So why is that one both videos, the bell on the cimbasso is not all the way up?
like this

but way off to the side?
just curious,
Bill
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:19 am
by Roger Fjeldet
Often when I play the Cimbasso I "lower" the bell to get in in the same hight as the rest of the trombone section. This makes the Cimbasso fit nicely in the sound.
I guess that goes for Thomas too
Roger

Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:01 am
by J.c. Sherman
Tubadork wrote:So why is that one both videos, the bell on the cimbasso is not all the way up?
just curious,
Bill
I think in this case it may be for the microphone... his bell is lower than the rest of the section.
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:56 am
by Bob Kolada
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:47 am
by J.c. Sherman
That's just plain fun!
I suppose if I had a $1 grillion I'd have to nab me a Rudy F Chimp, but I'll have to make do with my slide beast only for now

I'd only ever tried the CC Rudy, and wasn't too happy trying to make it work.
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:27 pm
by Bob Kolada
I'll be playing my contra in a brass band tomorrow!
I'll try and make some recordings for youtube. There are a few random ones by other people and 2 by a guy on a Haag (and of course there's a contra in that Hellboy clip as well as TWO bass sacbuts in a "period correct Hellboy"

)-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9t2qrL9Q7I
Re: Great Cimbasso playing!
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:09 pm
by J.c. Sherman
Wow...
Salsa can be wonderful, moving music, especially played well, tightly, and in perfect rhythm. It can be glorious fun! That this work is based on themes of undoubtedly top-of-the-line music as its main thematic content is icing on the cake. That they have the joy of playing for money is even better. That they are playing an inventive arrangement is also a wonderful bit of fun.
I'm of the "Switched on Bach" generation, where arrangements are ok. That's how I grew up. I was also raised on a great deal of Arthur Fiedler, Bert Bacharach's (sp?) "Fifth of Beethoven" and other expressions of musical joy that - while rooted in "classical" "art music", were not bound to the page like a religion.
Oddly, this is why I absolutely adore historic/historically informed/authentic instrument performance. In most cases, it represents a NEW way for contemporary audiences to experience old works. Why do I love playing the ophicleide? Because people are unaccustomed to its sound in Berlioz, Verdi, etc. And that's EXCITING!!
J.c.S.