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Re: [OM] OT: What I did last week

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: What I did last week
From: Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 01:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
But not as low as that Bosendorfer that Oscar Peterson played? 

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From: "Peter Klein" <boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 7:15:39 PM 
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: What I did last week 

That's our coach, Adam Trucell. He plays in the (Portland) Oregon 
Symphony. Yes, he is indeed playing one of those contra thingies. The 
regular bassoon is eight feet of tubing folded back on itself once. The 
contra is sixteen feet of tubing folded twice into an ellipse. He let us 
try it. The lowest notes are also the lowest notes on the piano, minus 
one key. They are so low that you almost don't hear the pitch, you feel it. 

Bellowing bedpost Peter 

Moose sez: 

> Works here. Looks like fun. The guy on the right looks like he's 
playing one of those contra thingies you took pix of in 
> Europe. 

> A Capella Moose 

I sez: 

On 8/7/2018 8:30 PM, Peter Klein wrote: 

I spent last week at Midsummer Musical Retreat, at Whitman College 
in Walla Walla, Washington. It's a summer music camp for grown-ups. 
At least, that's the story we tell. I took no pictures, too busy 
playing. One of my quintet-mates else got this shot of the bassoon 
section, I'm second from left. 

<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157016157803676&set=oa.10156204346132713&type=3&theater>
 

I believe this photo is public, so you should be able to see it even 
if you're not a Facebook subscriber. If you can't, let me know and 
I'll try and post it somewhere else. 

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