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Only a very small number of these large novelty instruments have ever been built. Most are pitched in thirty-six-foot (36′) BBB♭ an octave lower than the BB♭ contrabass tuba, their fundamental note B♭ -1 corresponding to a frequency of 15 Hz – such a slow vibration that it can scarcely be perceived as a note.
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.
The subcontrabass flute is pitched either in the key of G, a fourth below the contrabass flute in C and two octaves below the alto flute in G, or in F, a fifth below the contrabass flute. It is sometimes called the double contra-alto flute.
The subcontrabass flute is a member of the Western concert flute family. With the length of tubing ranging from 4.6 metres (15 ft) (when in G) to 5.5 metres (18 ft) long (when in C), it is the second largest instrument of the family after the hyperbass flute .
The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.
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.
An upright bass flute being played by Carla Rees A contra-bass flute. The bass flute is a member of the flute family pitched one octave below the concert flute.The tubing length is twice as long at 146 cm (57 in), which requires a J-shaped head joint to bring the embouchure hole within reach of the player.