More odd music

[doctroid]

Following up on a story Goolge News found for me, here's the Main Squeeze Orchestra: the fulfillment of one man's dream to conduct an all-woman, all-accordion orchestra.

Edmund Welles is not alone: here's another bass clarinet quartet. Their site's a little outdated; maybe they don't exist any more.

(There was also the World's Largest Bass

Comments

[plorkwort]

Bassoon quartets seem to be a fairly frequent genre/ensemble type.

In addition to the Main Squeeze orchestra above, there's the Maine Squeeze.

[doctroid]

Thanks; interesting links! I had no idea bassoon quartets were so common (Goolge for them). Heck, I had no idea they existed.

[plorkwort]

My brother the bassoonist had the Bubonic Bassoon Quartet CD on repeat for about six months straight when he was in middle school.

[doctroid]

My brother the bassoonist

Ooh, bassoon-accordion duets? Cool.

[ext_71997]

Another clarinet and saxophone ensemble is the Kölner Saxophon Mafia. You wouldn't know from the name it had clarinets, but you will be happy to know that their recordings feature plenty of alto/bass/contra clarinet.

I found this entry because I was looking for more information on Rocco Parisi's bass clarinet quartet. I was hoping to find sample mp3s somewhere, but no luck. (I am familiar with Edmund Welles.)

As for bassoon-accordion duets, I'm not familiar with any (not that I've looked) but there is a bass clarinet/accordion duet that has recorded a few discs.