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As a plus I finally worked out how to embed videos onto a forum... Always two steps behind with technology.
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I'll take that over an ophicleide any day. :mrgreen:
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Impressive. I need to play mine more than once a year!
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Here's the same guy playing it in a brass ensemble-
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And don't miss these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYydzZs2t-8" target="_blank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpLqiJyymlQ" target="_blank

Player: Thomas Røisland, Rudolf Meinl F Cimbasso.
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Anyone know who made that instrument?
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MartyNeilan wrote:I'll take that over an ophicleide any day. :mrgreen:
They have different uses. To be serious you need both...
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TubaTinker wrote:Impressive. I need to play mine more than once a year!
You have a cimbasso??
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You got a Nobel Peace Prize for that? Well, I guess people have done less and gotten a Peace Prize. Maybe next time you can get the prize for physics or chemistry.
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Alex C wrote:You got a Nobel Peace Prize for that? Well, I guess people have done less and gotten a Peace Prize. Maybe next time you can get the prize for physics or chemistry.
I award the Nobel Peach Prize...
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Peach wrote:
Alex C wrote:You got a Nobel Peace Prize for that? Well, I guess people have done less and gotten a Peace Prize. Maybe next time you can get the prize for physics or chemistry.
I award the Nobel Peach Prize...
Your logic is fuzzy, Peach.
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Yeah, "Peach Peace Prize" doesn't have the same ring to me...
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Peach wrote:Yeah, "Peach Peace Prize" doesn't have the same ring to me...
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Thomas is a really awesome player!! Norse power and sensibility!!
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I love how in these videos they can't help but smile after playing each passage... I don't know how anybody COULDN'T smile after playing cimbasso like that!
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