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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up89·2 years agoMay I present the contrabass saxophone:
minus-squaremack7400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·2 years agoThat’s one whisper you shouldn’t be careless with.
minus-squarejana@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·2 years agoThere’s a size larger: the subcontrabass sax
minus-squarebob_wiley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoThere is also a sub contrabass recorder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcoV37kRFc
minus-squareRamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoThese are all well and good but what does it take to get all these in the same room, playing at the same time?
minus-squarebob_wiley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI tried to find a video of a contrabass band. This seems like something that would have been done with YouTube existing. I came up empty. I did stumble across this all bass orchestra playing Wellerman, so I’ll give you that as a consolation prize. https://youtu.be/o5R3Q_9tFog?si=gd2r8EXAiD-oTapN
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoAt first it looked like a Contrabass Slide Whistle. I’m a bit disappointed.
minus-squareRayspekt@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 years agoIs this the instrument that does the dramatic horn sound that Christopher Nolan forced to use every 20 seconds in his movies?
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoSmall chance it was used for the Reaper main cannon in Mass Effect.
May I present the contrabass saxophone:
That’s one whisper you shouldn’t be careless with.
Careful scream
There’s a size larger: the subcontrabass sax
There is also a sub contrabass recorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcoV37kRFc
These are all well and good but what does it take to get all these in the same room, playing at the same time?
I tried to find a video of a contrabass band. This seems like something that would have been done with YouTube existing. I came up empty.
I did stumble across this all bass orchestra playing Wellerman, so I’ll give you that as a consolation prize.
https://youtu.be/o5R3Q_9tFog?si=gd2r8EXAiD-oTapN
At first it looked like a Contrabass Slide Whistle.
I’m a bit disappointed.
Is this the instrument that does the dramatic horn sound that Christopher Nolan forced to use every 20 seconds in his movies?
Small chance it was used for the Reaper main cannon in Mass Effect.
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