Orsi BBb cimbasso

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Orsi BBb cimbasso

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A. Fossi found this one in the basement of his opera house:
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Nice!!!
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Klaus-
Any idea of the age of the instrument?
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Bob Kolada wrote:Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9KICo ... ata_player" target="_blank
Hi the second one in reading right to left looks like it but the titles suggest that it is either a Voight in Eb or a Kallison in Bb
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jonesmj wrote:Klaus-
Any idea of the age of the instrument?
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Ditto. Would also be curious to some of the basic dimensions, if possible. The perspective of the picture intentionally makes the bell look larger than I am sure it is.
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Thought to be from the 1960-ies. Went out of fashion because Italian scholars found it too widely bored for early Verdi. A. Fossi uses it for Puccini.
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A little more love for the Cimbasso. The video isn't the greatest quality but the musicians definitely are.

Enjoy

http://youtu.be/knbuXqTJBew" target="_blank" target="_blank

I fixed the link.
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The picture of the giant cimbasso (in the original post) vanished.
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With the bell down:

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