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[lionbc]

I was drooling when I found this website Contrabass.com. Holy crud. Octobass Flute, Octo-Contrabass Clarinet in BBBb, Contrabass Saxophone in Eb, Tubax, Heckelphone, Contrabass Oboe in CC, Bass Shawms, Contrabassoon, Great Bass Sordune, Great Bass Rackett, Contrabass Sarrusophone in BBb, Contrabassophone, and more. I actually downloaded some of the recordings(unfortunately, not Octo-Contrabass Clarinet recording), and some are pretty good, the Serpent one isn't, but it's a bass trombonist playing it, so that much is to be expected.

[HHSBaSsTrOmBoNe'09]

It shows how strange some people are.. to make such strange instruments...

[Mculbert07]

I forgot where I saw it, but I saw some bizarre inventions of Adolphe Sax on a website, if I can find it again, I'll post it.

 

One was a cross between an Sax and a Bone.

[lionbc]

  Mculbert07 said:

I forgot where I saw it, but I saw some bizarre inventions of Adolphe Sax on a website, if I can find it again, I'll post it.

 

One was a cross between an Sax and a Bone.

I think it might have been the slide reed. It's a trombone that uses a bassoon(or something similar) reed instead of a mouthpiece. Atleast that's what I've gathered. It should be on the contrabass website.

[MmCheezItsYay]

OMG!! those clarinet-things are huge!

[LHS'NET10]

HA Tubax

[lionbc]

  MmCheezItsYay said:

OMG!! those clarinet-things are huge!

Which of the clarinet-things? The contrabass? That's exactly why I love the instrument.

  LHS said:

HA Tubax

Did you listen to the clip?

[MmCheezItsYay]

the octocontrabass or w/e it was lol... the mouthpiece looked like it barely fit in the guys mouth

[TRtrumpet]

Wierd... lol.

[Serardian]

I like how the Subcontrabass Saxophone is like 2 stories high.

[MmCheezItsYay]

i like how its not real and still on that site. lol.

[TRtrumpet]

So these are or aren't real?

[G'townPIT]

most of it looks like weird stuff that you find on ebay

[lionbc]

Most of the instruments on there are real. The Octocontrabass clarinet has only one in existance, but it's real, the big saxes aren't really playable. If you read the information pages it will tell you about the origin of the instrument and stuff like that.

[Nancy08]

I *heart* contrabassoon!!!!

 

I wanna play one...

[MartinHorn]

Those instruments are crazy.

[lionbc]

  Nancy08 said:

I *heart* contrabassoon!!!!

 

I wanna play one...

And I *heart* contrabass clarinet! :wub:

 

Thing is, I've already got to play one...

[Daylen007]

My goal in life now is to find/make a working subcontrabass saxophone... that was definitely bigger than like a 1 story building. almost.

[Danpod]

  Daylen007 said:

My goal in life now is to find/make a working subcontrabass saxophone... that was definitely bigger than like a 1 story building. almost.

 

Good Lord, I'd be afraid to be anywhere near that sound. Brown noise. Ick.

[takigan]

So a guy designed a Super ultra mega hyper Contrabass (my words....he just calls it a "contra-bass") using 64' of PVC pipe, a Selmer standard contrabass clarinet mouthpiece and other various accessories. The lowest note that he can get on it is a C^-2

 

^{That's quintuple pedal C at 4.09Hz.....over 2 octaves below the range of human hearing. For those who aren't}

^{sure what that means and need a more visual representation, it would be this note (concert pitch):}

 

 

[b_sax_agent]

"Concerto for Subcontrabass Saxophone"

 

Program notes: Due to danger of loss of hearing, pleas step outside the auditorium and listen from there.

[lionbc]

I can't believe people have commented on this,

I thought it died a long time ago...

 

It was pretty much dead the last time I was on here...

which was quite a while ago.