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The 3m-tall subcontrabass saxophone’s lowest note is just about within the human range of hearing. Enjoy this wonderful video of Italian jazz musician Attilio Berni, a graduate of the Santa Cecilia ...
J'Elle Stainer Sub-contrabass saxophone-YouTube This is a 'double bass saxophone' that is not as big as a sub double bass. It's huge, but you can still hold it and play.
This subcontrabass saxophone is showcased on his new album, "Low Standards," which features covers of jazz standards played on this extra low, quirky-sounding horn.
Will Friedwald profiles the incredibly versatile multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson in a Wall Street Journal that ran in print this morning -- and gives us a glimpse of his many saxophone, from ...
Of the nine types of saxophone (yes, nine!), the contrabass saxophone is the largest useful sax. It's dwarfed only by the totally obscure subcontrabass saxophone, an unplayable thing if you can ...
He wraps his arms around the subcontrabass saxophone trying to figure out where his fingers are supposed to go. ... Like most, I started as an alto sax player. I paid $150 for my first horn.
"Unvorherhorbar," Meinrad Buholzer writes in the liner notes to El Nino, describing a new trio release by Ned Rothenberg, Matthias Ziegler and Peter Schmid.Roughly translated as 'unforehearable," this ...
The sopranissimo saxophone, nicknamed the soprillo, is the world's smallest saxophone. It is followed (in terms of size and pitch) by the sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, ...