Eppelsheim contrabass

[Pete Thomas]

Just got this pic from the Musikmesse

 

[philthd]

glorious

impractical, not widely useful and capable of annoying neighbours you didnt know you had

but glorious

 

[Taz]

Just don't try and move it on your own Pete :laugh:

On a serious(ly loud) note, it does look like a fantastic beastie!

 

[Bobby G]

That really is quite something, isn't it!

 

[Jules]

I thought I'd been doing well with... but looks like I was out classed!

 

[jools]

Ohh Pete, you have got a whopper!
No, stoppit, you mustn't, missus, shut yer face.

 

[andrew_sanders]

Pete, are these people small.................or just far away?

 

[jools]

No Dougal, they're very very far away.

 

[frankb]

Col9 wrote:
looks fantastic what a beast.

Oh, Pete always looks like that...!


:laugh:

 

[Taz]

Midgets on Soprano's! Whats the big deal!! :laugh:

 

[jools]

Ha. Call that a saxophone!? - THIS is a saxophone!...

An "Octa Contra Basca EEEE" - - -





("down for a bath" ? ? )

 

[Bobby G]

OK mister biggest one ever, now you've got it what are you gonna do with it?

 

[jools]

Mwaahh Haaa Haaaa, gonna get me some sweet booty, boy.

 

[greg_strange]

Well, what you can say about the contrabass?

Another instrument for The Pete Thomas Saxophone Collection?

Not exactly something you can hide from the wife. 😱

Does it come with an instrument case, or is there a small truck(lorry) or van supplied?

If you started playing that in Southhampton you would probably cause a tsunami - 11 on the Richter Scale. :laugh:

Nevertheless, a marvellous piece of plumbing...ah, sorry engineering.

Regards,
Greg Strange.

P.S. The picture of the giant sax Jools posted, I saw the photo in a column "Vintage Saxophones Revisited" by Paul Cohen in Saxophone Journal years ago. According to the article it was actually in some working condition, the problem was you had to be about 90 feet tall to play the thing. It use to tour the US in the 1930s promoting Conn Saxes at various big music stores.
Now, if you played that in San Francisco you would cause an earthquake, and probably knock the Golden Gate over. :laugh:

 

[old_git]

This confirms my suspicion that Adolphe Sax was either a space or time traveller.
It was that thing that brought down the Walls of Jericho, not wimpy trumpets.

 

[griff136]

Greg Strange wrote:
Well, what you can say about the contrabass?



Does it come with an instrument case, or is there a small truck(lorry) or van supplied?

I think it comes in a soft gig bag with shoulder straps
:laugh: