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The contrabass saxophone is the second-lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper. It is pitched in E♭ one octave below the baritone saxophone , which requires twice the length of tubing and bore width.
In the 2000s, J'Élle Stainer made contrabass saxophones for the popular large church orchestras of the Christian Congregation in Brazil. In 2010 they produced the first working subcontrabass saxophone, albeit in a more compact form than originally envisaged, more than 160 years after Sax first described it in his 1846 patent. [1]
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 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.
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.
Such instruments now command prices up to US$4,000. ... [41] plays the same range and with the same fingering as the E ♭ contrabass saxophone. Its bore, however, ...
The names contrabass and double bass refer (respectively) to the instrument's range, and to its use one octave lower than the cello (i.e. the cello part was the main bass line, and the "double bass" originally played a copy of the cello part; only later was it given an independent part).
A catalogue showing various Adolphe Sax instruments, including saxhorns, saxophones, and saxotrombas. The saxhorns form a family of seven brass instruments (although at one point ten different sizes seem to have existed). Designed for band use, they are pitched alternately in E ♭ and B ♭, like the saxophone group.