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The subcontrabass tuba is a rare instrument of the tuba family built an octave or more below the modern contrabass tuba.Only a very small number of these large novelty instruments have ever been built.
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For example, the contrabass flute's lowest note is approximately an octave higher than that of the contrabass clarinet. Instruments tuned below contrabass instruments, such as the double contrabass flute or subcontrabass saxophone , may be referred to as "double contrabass," "triple contrabass," "subcontrabass," or "octocontrabass" instruments.
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.
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.
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.
Larger BBB ♭ subcontrabass tubas exist but are extremely rare (there are at least four known examples). One four-valve example was exhibited by maker Bohland & Fuchs in 1928, its bell 50 inches in diameter, its height 110 inches, its weight 200 pounds. [ 11 ]
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