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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 .
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.
Subcontrabass flute in G (also called double contra-alto flute) or C (also called double contrabass flute) Double contrabass flute in C (also called octocontrabass flute or subcontrabass flute) Hyperbass flute in C; Each of the above instruments has its own range. The piccolo reads music in C (like the standard flute), but sounds one octave higher.
This is a category for all transposing instruments that sound music written in the key of C in the key of B ... Subcontrabass tuba; Superbone; T. Tenor saxophone;
Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.
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.