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From: Eric Mallow
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:34:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Wooden coverplates

Siegfried Naruhn wrote:
>
> generally wellcomed entertaining topic. However, a tenor sax is normally not
> heard on Cologne streets. But one day, I heard one without seeing the player,
> more exactly, I supposed to hear a tenor sax. When I approached and turned round
> the corner, I didn't realized to my greatest astonishment a sax player but a man
> with a bamboo flute. He had attached an original sax mouthpiece on his flute and
> could 'imitate' the tenor sax sound in such a staggering way that apparent sax
> players stopped to check his marvel.

I recently bought a bamboo alto sax in Philadelphia from a man who makes
these instruments in Vermont. The sound is rich and so much like a sax that
I was very intrigued. If anyone is interested, I can try and find his address.
He also makes bamboo clarinets, flutes, and other instruments.

Eric