Bass Player<\/strong> Guitar Player<\/strong> Percussionist<\/strong> more percussion equipment<\/strong> More percussion<\/strong> Keyboards<\/strong> Drummer Booth<\/strong> Drummer booth<\/strong> Brass Section<\/strong> Woodwind section<\/strong> You may be interested to know that each musician gets paid more $$ for every instrument they play!
\nThe bass player, (seen here drinking coffee), plays 3 instruments; a stand up bass, a fretless electric bass, and a fretted electric bass.
\nBass player Mark<\/p>\n![\"wicked-bass.JPG\"](\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/wicked-bass.JPG\")
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\nThis musician plays 6 instruments; a banjo, a mandolin, two acoustic guitars, and two different electric guitars to achieve different effects.
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\nChuck is the percussionist and he plays many, many different instruments. Besides the obvious timpani, bells, vibraphone, bass drum, tubular bells, and cymbals, he plays a number of very unusual instruments to achieve special effects including a peanut wind chime and a water pipe.
\npercussionist Chuck<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAnother view of the percussion area.
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\nThis view is more or less the way Chuck sees his area.
\npercussion equipment 2<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThere are 4 keyboard synthesizers in the pit. One of them takes the place of the entire string section, and the other three take the place of other live musicians. Unfortunately, this isn’t good for live wind players, but it makes it cheaper for the producers of the show to stage a large production like this. The synthesizers blend in with the live musicians and make it sound like there is full orchestra in the pit. Here are two of the keyboards.
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\nThe drummer has his own booth in the pit. This is for a couple of reasons, but mostly it’s so that the sound man can create a good balance between the drummers sound and the acoustic musicians, and also so that his sound doesn’t bleed into the other musicians microphones.
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\nInside the drummer booth. You can see that the drummer also has several percussion effects to play.
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\nThe brass section is made up of 1 trumpet, 1 french horn, and 1 trombone. If you look closely, you can see that they all use a variety of mutes to achieve different effects for different songs. The trumpet player plays a flueglehorn and a trumpet, and the trombone player plays a tenor trombone and a bass trombone.
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\nThe woodwind section is made up of 1 clarinet, 1 flute, (me!) and 1 oboe. The clarinet player plays clarinet, Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone. I play flute, alto flute, piccolo, recorder, and pennywhistle. The oboe player plays oboe and english horn.<\/p>\n
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