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Thread #110424   Message #2462837
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
11-Oct-08 - 06:18 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
You got a metal Turkish G, Jack? I play one in my dreams! I use a nice old Eb alto (for the bottom end) and two old simple systems in C and Bb, albeit miltary pitch which seems work out around 39 cents sharp of concert, same as my Indian pocket trumpet. These latter have very wide bores, so nice for getting those Albanian kaba brays in the bottom end, though given the chops on those guys I doubt it would bother them what they play - like this guy Here, who looks like he's playing a full Boehm and sounding like a dream.

Here's a nice Turkish wooden G...

Otherwise, here's my C clarinet (and citera, doromb, bendir etc.) and some fruit lovely bats I filmed in the dark at Chester Zoo's free flying bat exhibit a couple of years back: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53_paumPlo.