My friend Randy Emerick from the Sax on the Web forum talks about my soon to be finished bass sax in the topic "Dream Machine or Gandalfe orders an Eppelsheim bass sax".
Eppelsheim’s bass saxophone is a true large bore bass saxophone. It starts out even larger than the old Bueschers and Conns and it has a really deep, true bass sax sound, the best ever, I think.
Also, Eppelsheim’s bass sax has much larger tone holes than any previous saxophone, providing these advantages:
1. The large tone holes help to eliminate the bad notes (C natural, et. al.) found on vintage basses (I’m sure the new bore helps too). Tone hole size should be proportional to the size of the bore, and for the first time on the Eppelsheim bass, a big bore bass has holes of the correct diameter. Some of the keys are nearly 4 inches in diameter.
2. The large tone holes vent well enough that the key heights can be fairly low, about the same height as a baritone saxophone. Action on the Eppy bass is therefore very fast. Also, use of the bis Bb key becomes practical on an Eppelsheim because the left first finger doesn’t have to "climb" an impossible height to reach the bis key pearl. The Eppelsheim bass saxophone proves that the "Keys should open 1/3 the diameter of the tone hole" rule is an oversimplification. The Eppelsheim bass keys open less than 1/4 of the tone hole diameter on many keys, and every fingering, including alternate fingerings, sound clearer than on any other bass sax.
The Eppelsheim bass saxophone can use a baritone saxophone mouthpiece with an enlarged back bore to fit the enormous neck opening. I have experimented successfully with an old Otto Link slant signature baritone mouthpiece and vintage large chamber baritone mouthpieces on the Eppelsheim Bb bass. However, the Zinner mouthpieces available for the Eppelsheim have so many variations in chambers, baffles, and facings that it really isn’t necessary to spend the time and money altering bari mouthpieces. For example, the Zinner B chamber for the Eppelsheim is remarkably similar to the Otto Link mouthpiece; the Zinner A chamber mouthpiece is similar to an old stock baritone mouthpiece and the Zinner mouthpieces are available with facings more suited to modern playing.
Randy’s MYSPACE has lots of Eppelsheim bass recordings: http://www.myspace.com/saxpsychosis.
The Bis Key Chronicles 
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HEy you!! I’m sorry for not getting back sooner – i truly am not on here much at all – however I want you to know how much your very sweet comment (can you still recall it? lol) meant to me. I hope you and your sweetie have a great week – ttfn ~ tressie
I wish I could hear your music. I hear it on one place only..all the rest are silent. that’s usually a good thing but in your case..I would like to hear it. The one I DO hear…wow..I could so do without it.
Ramblin’ can you give me any example I can look at where you hear the music on all the pages but it’s a song you’d rather not hear? On my site you can always turn off the music on the home page by hitting the ESC key on your keyboard. When I want to hear a song as I move from page to page, picture to picture, I open up another browser view of the home page and move around leaving the other instantiation to play on. Cheers.