My wife wants a bombarde!!!!

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:53 pm

Soundproof cell, chainsaw ear defenders, top of your own hill.

We have the last two and I still wouldn't get one. French players of these things who start young end up with a very well developped, erm, chest.

Trisha, Wales

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:02 pm

At last year's Florida Tionol, John Skelton played his. Marvelous! I think it was the one instrument on stage that really didn't need to be mic'd...it carries a touch.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:49 pm

Twas probably them old Alan Stivell albums.

Slan,
D.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:54 pm

Peter Laban wrote:I have a Camac one in Bflat for sale if you're interested if you want to outdo her I have a biniou kozh that I'd sell too.

Hmmm... changed your mind about selling the Camac, have you?

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:07 pm

Wanderer wrote:They are extremely loud. As in "too loud to practice indoors". As in "too loud to play indoors at a loud bar where you drown out session players" too. No..i'm not bitter..

Yeah, it sounds like you have let go of that bitterness

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:45 pm

The bombarde is probably THE loudest reed instrument. When played well they have a very majestic, powerful sound. How anybody goes about learning to play one without getting assaulted or arrested is a miracle.

I figured the GHB was the loudest reed instrument until I played with a bagad (pipe band with bombardes). The bombarde section is much louder. Maybe if I lived on a farm or in Brittany I would learn to play one.

Master flute-player Jean-Michel Veillon started on the bombarde before taking up the flute. Flute-maker Gille LeHart also makes some of the best bombardes.

Get your wife a Bb whistle. It's what a lot of bombarde players use to practice.

Cheers,
Aaron

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:38 pm

Get your wife a Bb whistle. It's what a lot of bombarde players use to practice.

Is the fingering the same?

Unseen122 · Post by **Unseen122** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:09 pm

Just be happy she doesn't want a set of GHBs I paly em and love em but they are loud as hell not only that but they have a very piercing tone quality. A set of earplugs might be what you need.

Wjndbag · Post by **Wjndbag** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:29 am

Not a bad pair of lungs, as it goes. Nice smile too

I put the reed in the bally thing, it uses a Highland Bagpipe wooden chanter reed, thinned a bit. and it is unspeakable

You get to see whole new constellations though.

Cheers

Patrick P

Feadan · Post by **Feadan** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:30 pm

Unseen122 wrote:Just be happy she doesn't want a set of GHBs I paly em and love em but they are loud as hell not only that but they have a very piercing tone quality. A set of earplugs might be what you need.

I dunno about the GHB comparison...FWIW, my Camac bombarde is easily louder and more piercing than my Highland Pipes. Much harder to blow as well.

Cheers,
David

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:26 pm

trisha wrote:French players of these things who start young end up with a very well developped, erm, chest.

Not to mention very well developed hemorrhoids, rumor has it!

John S · Post by **John S** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:32 am

I play Bombard in an Electric Blues band and it always goes down well (I finish the set of with a 12 bar on GHB).
Bb Bombard fingering is only slightly different to Bb Whistle fingering in the second octave in that the flattened 7th Ab is played with just 1 finger.
oxoooo.
But the Bombard second octave Bb is
oxxxxx not oxxooo as on a whistle 3rd octave Bb
I would recommend that she learn a few tunes that just use the first octave to start with, until she gets the general feel of the instrument.

Good luck

John S

Whitmores75087 · Post by **Whitmores75087** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:59 pm

This is "grounds". I recommend you get out now, if only to protect your spleen from haemorrage (spelling?)

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:11 am

Whitmores75087 wrote:This is "grounds". I recommend you get out now, if only to protect your spleen from haemorrage (spelling?)

Sorry, divorce is out of the question. We can't agree over custody of the lawyer.

flatlandfiddler · Post by **flatlandfiddler** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:50 am

Bombardes at close range are impressive things. A friend of mine was so taken by her new bombarde that she played it for me the first time in a small room with concrete walls. The physical sensation of the sound vibrating my head was rather unique. She used it that summer to frighten people playing sessions at a local fiddle festival. A bombarde in simplest terms is an open-holed piccolo oboe in Bb. From what I recall, it takes about three highland pipes to properly balance one.

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