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Thank you, Jason Yes, I did the full mechanism. For that, I used silver soldering; it was laborious, but no too difficult. I think the worst part was buiding the conical tubes for the different joints. It is a dirty, sticky and smelly job; polyester is a good and cheap resin, but not very pleasant (...

Hi, Steve

I have not any project in mind. Probably, I will try to improve the pitch of some notes of my contra, in order to play it decorously with my friends.

I have made a polyester contrabassoon. I´m an amateur bassonist, and I wanted to try with the contrabassoon. This instrument sounds one octave lower than the bassoon. Commercial contras are very expensive, and I decided to build one. The materials used (polyester resin, PVC, brass...) were easily fo...