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1. Anthony
   April 10th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

   I can hear why there are only 25.

2. WillF
   April 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

   I wonder where you buy reeds for it.

3. CheeseDuck
   April 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

   Uh. The sound from that thing is horrible.

4. oezicomix
   April 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

   JT ketterer should get his own show on tv!!
   and i so much wanted to hear the guy play the pink panther motiv…

5. bean
   April 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   I’m surprised a chunk of brass that big is only 45 pounds.

6. DrJones
   April 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

   That thing is awesome!!! I’d love to see it in action on the marching field

   I think it would sound great in a trio or quartet of other saxes or reeds.

7. Leo
   April 10th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

   Is that how it really sounds or he is just a poor player??

8. ted
   April 10th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

   It really needs an orchestra, but that was interesting. People shouldn’t be so critical - it takes a lot of air to blow one of those things.

   Enjoyed the geek at the end, too.

   Who needs a tuba to make farting noises?

9. Ali S.
   April 10th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

   Saxamaphooooone!

10. aaron
    April 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    There is a saxophone group that uses one called the nuclear whales
    There is a more resonable version of a contrabass called a tubax made by eppelsheim same octive below the bari
    http://www.eppelsheim.com/tubax.php?lang=en

11. Greg
    April 10th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Man! How much cooler would Kenny G look with one of those around his neck?!?! (Kenny G is cool? Wait….)

12. Reechard
    April 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Fools! He’s actually the world’s smallest man

13. Another Jake
    April 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    Someone get this man a harder reed STAT!

14. Viola
    April 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    It’s the sexy version of the sax! I’m impressed. I wonder what the range is?

15. Rosi
    April 11th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    It’s an octave below the bari, so I’m guessing the C two octaves below middle C to about E above middle C. Ouch. That’s two octaves lower than an alto sax.
    I don’t know about contrabass saxes, but you can buy bass saxes (which are about a fifth higher I think) pretty easily through specialist shops.
    Also, I have no idea why he’s holding the sax up. You’re meant to rest it on a spike to play it, similar to a bass clarinet or a cello. It’s just making it more difficult to play if you hold it up.

16. Frank
    April 11th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Nice one Reechard.

17. Jane
    April 11th, 2008 at 5:05 am

    Sorry but it sounds like someone farting

18. andrewdoane
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am

    Sweet… I totally want one. I played bari in high school. I will have to add this to the list of ridiculous things I will buy if I win the lottery.

19. Gerry
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    I play alto and tenor sax and have only tried playing a bari a few times.

    Can only imagine that the contrabass is like trying to blow a 6″ pipe. Wayyyy too much for me….

    There was an article on bass and contrabass saxes in the March/April 2008 ‘Saxophone Journal’ magazine. Guy from Brazil had a Stainer Low B Contrabass custom built that will go below 65Hz - essentially below human hearing into the subsonic range..

    Here’s some more vids:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a09mBkuC8wo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfS_wmlfjg&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieb5IDnXV8o&feature=related

20. Allen
    April 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    2 octaves below middle C? I’ve played a recorder pitched at that, the Paetzold sub-greatbass. Requires a lot of air. I’ve heard Dolmetsch is working on a sub-contra in F, two octaves under a normal bass recorder.

    Here are some pictures I scanned from Strad magazine several years ago, of a rather large string bass, made by the 19th century French maker Vuillaume:

    http://plover.net/~agarvin/bass.jpg
    http://plover.net/~agarvin/bass2.jpg
    http://plover.net/~agarvin/bass3.jpg

21. DCGaymer
    April 11th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Marcel Helland is my new hero.

22. kyboiz
    April 12th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    speaking of rare or obsolete even, does anyone remember the E Flat horn?

23. iTim
    April 12th, 2008 at 3:50 am

    There’s a rarer instrument: the octocontrabass clarinet. Two exist, made by Leblanc.

24. Jerse
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:21 am

    That insectguy at the end haunts my dreams…

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