[nniuqsiwel]

Videos now on youtube. Search "subcontrabass" then sort by upload date. Unfortunately, the guy playing doesn't represent it well...James Carter better pick one up, pronto!

 

[lhoffman]

Here, let me get that for you...

 

[paulwl]

Any sax where you can miss middle C by half a step needs a) work, or b) a better player.

I sorta wish it had been made 10 feet long with a bell the size of a washtub, but I understand the logistics involved.

 

[dancingman]

Did anyone else happen to notice the rather appropriate URL? (... 1ow )

 

[Gandalfe]

Any sax where you can miss middle C by half a step needs a) work, or b) a better player.

I sorta wish it had been made 10 feet long with a bell the size of a washtub, but I understand the logistics involved.

Sure is a gorgeous instrument though. Just watching him play made me subconsciously start gasping for more air!

 

[saxmusicguy]

Sure is a gorgeous instrument though. Just watching him play made me subconsciously start gasping for more air!

It looks a bit silly, at first glance.

 

[milandro]

well, we can do slightly better than that!

This is the Dutch player Hans Kuijt moving his first paces on the J'elle Stainer cotrabass

this is David Brutti, Italian player playing also on a Stainer

Mimmo Cascina Torchiera

Roscoe Mitchell

at Frankfurt

 

[3141592ab]

Milandro, Those are videos of contrabass saxophones. This thread was started about SUBcontrabass saxophones.

 

[milandro]

yes, they make those too........

 

[DavidB]

Hello everyone,

A few days ago I met Gilberto Lopez in Milano (importer of J'Elle Stainer for EU) and I have tried the complete SUB-contrabass saxophone in Bb.

unfortunately I was able to play just a few notes as the instrument was not fully functional: the sax had just arrived and since is very big and fragile it's really easy to damage it. The instrument will require a final set up (few days of work i think). Consider that for now the sax is at 60% of its potential.

 

[MojoBari]

I could not hear anything musical in the sub contra bass demo.

 

[milandro]

I have found another video with the long range sub contrabass and frankly speaking what comes out from that instrument doesn't sound particularly musical especially in the low notes.

Now, how much this is due to the instrument or the player one has to wonder. I guess we'll wait and then we'll hear if and when somebody does something with it which is sounding different from breaking (wood) wind and , last but not least, castanets ! :twisted:

 

[DavidB]

Mojo: it's not a demo, it's just me trying to produce some notes on a relly extreme horn. In addition, the mic of the camera is completely unappropriate to catch those low frequencies.

 

[Saxophilist]

Mojo: it's not a demo, it's just me trying to produce some notes on a relly extreme horn. In addition, the mic of the camera is completely unappropriate to catch those low frequencies.

He might have been talking about the demo at the beginning of the thread, and not yours.

 

[dogster]

what is the point of these instruments just saying

 

[saxtoronto]

Could not stop laughing! Is it a staple-gun, no, a nail-gun, or just really bad empanadas making their way though?

 

[milandro]

this mania for low sounding saxophones has been blown out proportions! :twisted: :bluewink:.

This player says in Dutch at the end of his duel with the church organ " I can hear it but I cannot get it (or find it)".

The reason is that those low notes are very difficult to discriminate from one another, so, what is the point of playing them besides being there with an impressive piece of metal?

 

[Gandalfe]

I couldn't justify owning anything lower than my bass sax, no matter how much I tried to.

 

[milandro]

I don't think too many people could really justify playing anything lower than a contrabass but the subcontrabass are marching on for no other good reason than looks really

 

[Rackety Sax]

That's more like it. I think those other guys were playing altissimo.