Peter,
Here's something funny. I was once a board member of the Wichita Jazz Festival,
the longest continuously operating jazz festival in the US. We booked OP and in
his contract it was specified that he only played on the Bosendorfer. As you
might imagine there were none of these within a thousand mile radius, and if it
was shipped in, we would also have to bring in a technician cause just any
piano tuner could tune it. It would have cost more to get in the piano that for
OP! He would have to use the house Steinway.
So we got in touch with him and explained that this was an insurmountable
problem. OP says, "Don't worry, I just won't play those notes."
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Klein" <boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:30:53 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: What I did last week
Right you are, Bill. Oscar's Imperial Bosendorfer 290 goes way down to
C0, a full sixth below the A0, lowest note of the standard piano. The
regular contrabassoon plays down to Bb0, and can go down to A0 with a
special extended bell joint, mostly used for Wagner and Mahler pieces.
I can imagine that playing low octaves on the Bosendorfer with bottom
notes that low must give the player delusions of grandeur!
--Peter
Bill sez:
> But not as low as that Bosendorfer that Oscar Peterson played?
>
I sez:
>
> 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
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