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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.
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.
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The sub-great bass recorder, also known as contra great bass and contrabass, [1] is a recorder with the range C–d1 (g1). [citation needed] It is manufactured in both bent ("knick") and square designs.
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 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 ...
The instrument's body is held vertically with an adjustable floor peg similar to that of the bass clarinet. The instrument maker Eva Kingma calls her contra-alto flute a "contr'alto flute in G," [ 1 ] while Kotato & Fukushima call their instrument a "bass flute in F." [ 2 ] Kotato & Fukushima's instrument sells for US$17,500.