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J'Élle Stainer is a musical instrument manufacturer specialising in large saxophones based in Italy and São Paulo, Brazil. They are notable for building some of the first subcontrabass saxophones , the largest of the family of instruments conceived of by its Belgian inventor in the 1840s, Adolphe Sax .
Although described in Adolphe Sax's patent in 1846, a practical, playable subcontrabass saxophone did not exist until the 21st century. [2] An oversized saxophone that might have qualified was built as a prop circa 1965; it could produce tones, but its non-functional keywork required assistants to manually open and close the pads, and it was reportedly incapable of playing a simple scale.
Saxophone ensembles were also popular at this time, and the contrabass saxophone was an eye-catching novelty for the groups that were able to obtain one. By the onset of the Great Depression , the saxophone craze had ended, and the contrabass, already rare, almost disappeared from public view.
The tubax is a modified contrabass saxophone developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim.Although it has the same fingering as the saxophone, Eppelsheim's design reduces the amount of expansion of its conical bore in relation to the length of tubing, resulting in a smaller volume of resonant air column.
As with most other members of the saxophone family, the lowest written note is the B ♭ below the staff—in the bass's case, sounding as a concert A ♭ 1. German wind instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim and Brazilian low saxophone maker J'Élle Stainer have both made bass
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