Octobass
Originally uploaded by Duchenj.
My blog stats tell me that I've had a few hits from various people seeking information about the Vuillaume Octobass. So here it is. We visited it last November in Paris, where it lives at the musical instrument museum in the Cite de la Musique. (We did NOT use a flash to take this photo!) It's a most extraordinary contraption and its controls work via pedals which unfortunately aren't quite visible here. Apparently the famous French luthier Vuillaume made it according to specifications from Berlioz (I think). I'm not entirely sure why Berlioz wanted one - but if anyone was going to, it WOULD be him, wouldn't it?! By the way, I share his birthday.
2 comments:
I´m looking desesperatelly any audio file containing the sound of this octobasse. I suggest maestro Nicola Moneta of http://www.xray.it/octo/ to put some samples, but maybe we interested need to be many and unified.
Can anyone help me in my searching??? dragonnegrohuy@hotmail.com
I´m loking desperatelly sound sambles of octobasse... Anyone can help me????
dragonnegrohuy@hotmail.com
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