Recorders The Sub Contrabass

[chimko1111]

Meanwhile in Denmark...

[N1C0HATR]

is he standing on a ladder?!?!?!

[drumandtrackdude]

haha, didn't think recorders got as serious as this one

[dikinebaks]

now imagine using this as a huge bong...

[Roboyoyo]

he plays at 1:59

[TheGpblink]

look like dynamite



[apw3ner]

bitch to play, huh?

[Rugdopey]

I love Danish, beautiful language

[IceCreamRefrosen]

@Rugdopey It's dutch? XD

[Rugdopey]

@Rugdopey alright thank you

[Wonton2006]

@Rugdopey I know, it's very soothing somehow. :D

[gooseberrygarden]

Please please please can I try it?

[hipepleful]

wonder how "For Elise" would sound on that.

[MrLanfranck]

I was always led to believe that there is a larger one - the sub-sub contrbass, or the Octocontrabass...? with the lowest note corresponding with that of a piano keyboard's lowest note.

[donbasuradenuevo]

I always wanted a musical instrument that I could use as furniture.

[cbmtrx]

fascinating--dank u!

[marhalabszar]

it sounds quite like a didgeridoo, especially the lowest note

[Ubersquirl]

That's like a wooden organ pipe with holes. Cool.

[shadowgmable]

это просто жесть:)

[Jackx598]

too bad we didn't get to play those in 2nd through 4th grade instead of the stupid small plastic things that sound like a cat falling off of the roof of a 10 story building.

[whitespacebeyond]

exactly

[Avion888]

I bought mine on Amazon! Free shipping! ;D

[dasanjos]

Amazing!

[beaglemanzzz]

It sounds beautiful.

[madmodpo]

Wow. 

[dafrules]

i love the way he says, the biggest recorder available in the world "at the moment", as if hes planning something.

[keeppeacer]

Very cool! I bet it would help to circular breathe with that, seems it needs lots of air.

great!

[ArchiteuthisDux]

Neat!

[thefuglystiff]

@cladiax1 Technically no (they seem to start at around 3.5 thousand pounds), but you have to buy or build a house to fit it in!

[phantompanda14]

it looks like a giant bassoon o.o

[chevalierski]

I get dizzy playing a great bass! I'd need an extra pair of lungs for this - how marvelous!

[LastTaboo]

I'd like to take measurements from one of these, but I probably have a better chance of waking up with a supermodel than seeing one of these in person. It's not like people just have them lying around in storage like an old clarinet.

[englishhorndude]

Looks like it would make a great hookah! lol

[nickleus1977]

very cool =)

[mambacfa2]

Isn't incredible how LONG recorders have to be to get down as low as a cello? This is a wonderful sound. Must be great in consort.

[MELONMOVIES]

In need this. Tis epic :P

[SuspiciousPakage]

ha....ha...HA!!!!!!

[Caboose2320]

isnt that a big bassoon? lol

[DZAUDZI69]

A bad Bass Clarinet... I think...

[homgard]

ALGUIEN SABE CUANTO CUESTA ESA COSOTA??

[PetrePann]

@homgard muchissimo mas que yo tengo

XD

[homgard]

@PetrePann CIERTO

[sophelet]

Fascinating. Kind of like a foghorn with high partials. Must be incredibly difficult to play, considering the breath control and quantity required.

[Jeshii117]

Wow, that's such a gorgeous sound! So deep. <3

[Lastexile00]

So it's a didgeridoo with keys?

[Hoopermazing]

Good lord, how I hate the Dutch.

[IpsaPaphum]

He pronounces his Dutch beautifully!

[WORLDOFZOURNA]

Wow! Horrible sound!

[ripvandingle]

pompous german asshole!!!!!

[superramennoodlejunk]

@ripvandingle lol i think hes dutch

[foreignboy221]

I've noticed most contrabass and subcontrabass instruments of this size lose a lot of the tone and timbre of the original instrument and just become very harsh. This instrument is a huge exception to that though. I love it!

[Madcapredcap]

What in tarnation? Seems like every instrument I know has a bass version.

[Evster96]

Thats awsome

[hugomak3]

It's a sub-great-bass. Not a sub-contrabass.

Sub means an octave lower, not a fifth nor a fourth.

[youtert]

Sounds like the bastard child of a bassoon and a digeridoo.

[ursulamargrit]

So very cool! I play and collect recorders, but I am afraid I'll never be able to afford one of these, it would be too expensive! Still, I can dream.

[TheBluePepper]

It's beutiful it really is but how do you pack it around???

[isomikieee]

nice bong you got there

[techgeek4567]

wat is this?

[MusicPhenom1]

dat past nooit in mijn huis lol!!

[MusicMan20061210]

You need a high ceiling to set it up.

[108128Kevin]

hoe lang is ie wel niet??

[NintendoN0ir]

what language is he speaking?

[robbertzzzzz]

It's dutch, the language from the netherlands ;)

(I'm dutch too)

[Marxfan58]

i wish i had one of these when i was in 5th grade and we all had to play recorder! but no... they're too expensive and rare.

[TheTealbunny]

@Marxfan58 this exact recorder? we learned the normal soprano recorder

[Marxfan58]

@TheTealbunny no, i learned it on soprano and tenor recorders. however if you knew how to read you would know that i WISH i had one of these.

[dolofonos]

@Marxfan58 One should be able to make a rude one from PVC, I think.

[hipepleful]

@Marxfan58 lol agreed

[VisionQuest2012]

I would like to hear what it sounds like hooked up to an air compressor. LOL!

[TSDFurReal]

Is it me or does it sound more like a bass clarinet than a recorder? Still have to say that that is pretty badass.

[KiyoKenshin]

it does sound kinda like a bass clarinet. prolly why they use those more often than this. haha

[citlaliac]

so it begs the question... why the hell did you buy it?

[20628]

Why, to play it of course!

[lennic95]

God! That's got a gorgeous sound. I feel like I've already heard it. What does it sound like?

[carmel1956]

@lennic95

The most bass notes sounds like a ship's horn to me!

[jpstenino]

@carmel1956 You will perhaps enjoy in looking up the term "diaphone"; as invented by Robert Hope-Jones. That is what produces the sound on most ships.

A "diaphone" is not a horn. (great trivia question)

[llesmestep]

well he says in dutch its an consort instrument. what means that its used to play in groupes. if you listen than its a beautifull sound

[timjmoran]

@lennic95 .. uhhh.. I think it sounds, um..... more or less like what you hear

on this vid. Just to be the Master of the Obvious.

[meticulum]

@lennic95 A "gorgeous sound" ? It sounds like someone's farting into a PVC pipe.

[lennic95]

@meticulum Have you ever heard of an opinion?

[PAFrogBoy]

@lennic95 maybe a bass clarinet?

[lennic95]

@PAFrogBoy Yeah! That's it :)

[Perfect5Recurve]

@lennic95 you most certaintly have. having played a bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet, they sound almost like the same instrument

[lardmonk]

@lennic95 it almost sounds like a bassoon im thinking

[mason13342]

@lennic95 It sounds like a bassoon almost

[MrWuzzo]

@mason13342 More like bass clarinet I think

[avatarniquette]

@lennic95 bass flute, contra bass/alto clarinet maybe?

[TasteForDisaster]

@lennic95 the faggot

[Dreamflies]

Cool!!! I would so much like to try one of them.. Now I only play down to bass... But is it not pretty slowly..? (sry, my bad english.. Hope you understood some of it :b)

[RumTumYummy]

That thing is huge and amazing :) ty for the captions

[FrozenIceCweam]

What would a contrabass bassoon look like?

[TintedRedFilms]

contrabassoon? Lol.

[tomolad93]

wow looks and sounds like a flue pipe from an organ........I WANT IT ^^

[ResponseSBD]

Thanks.That Sub Contrbass Recorder sounds very nice.I like it.

[artfreaksue]

that must be hard to blow into!! I only play the clarinet.

[mafoota]

This is like the horn at Helms Deep LOL.

[bmf91]

Cool!! I would love to play one of those! I've only played down to a bass :p

[ritamaria55]

Bedankt voor je uitleg. Een prachtig instrument met een evenzo prachtige warme klank. Bijzonder! Zijn er op youtube ook filmpjes te vinden waar dit instrument onderdeel van een ensemble uitmaakt?

[pianodesu]

Wow this requires strong breath

[kelvin1jp]

awesome sound

[skooterkid]

This reminds me of the Fujara, the Slovakian overtone flute.

The two operate differently, but both are still super cool.

Look up Fujara! Doooooooo it.

[musicolorhythm]

fUCK!!!

[googlemaster6380]

omg that makes me take back 90% of the things i ever aid about the recorder

[shinka1911]

mooi geluid

[Seregium]

A!!! magic!

[StanleyKSCBP]

Wow. That is cool. Can it get any lower than the Bassoon's lowest note. I've got Perfect Pitch too :). I heard a B Flat first time but when I listen to it more closely, it sounds like it's closer to B Flat than B natural. Hope I don't get critized.

[tartanmusician]

I've got relative pitch, and I caught a Bb too...It stuck out as our concert band tuning note, so I think you're right.

[jwell1234]

I have perfect pitch as well....

I would say that its closer to a B, but its definitely not in tune.

[manueldaman]

I'll stick to my alto recorder, or otherwise I will need to knock through my roof.

[boneofthewang]

False--the lowest note on this instrument is a B-natural, not a B-flat. I know this because I have perfect pitch.

[jrk8387]

arn't you one luckey mother fucka, or just a lying sperm dumpster

[boneofthewang]

maybe not the latter, but yes i do have perfect pitch lol

[jrk8387]

prove it

[boneofthewang]

I already did. Listen to the lowest note that the recorder plays on this vid, and play a low B-natural on a piano or a guitar or something.  You'll see that they match.

[barbietripping]

... its actually in between the two... but it was INTENDED to be a Bb. Understand that it was an old instrument and back then the standard of tuning was not 440. plus the aging of the instrument affects the tuning. Its probably about 2 or 3 cents sharp of a B half flat

[BrianBoru314]

Actually I made a mistake. It should be only two lines below the bottom of the staff. That is C and the B flat would be one more space down.

When I was in high school playing cello (many years ago) I would occasionally get a bassoon part. I hated bassoon parts because they had notes I could not play. ;-)

[pooblidoo]

and the title SAYS it's a recorder! Can't you guys read?? Im so tired of people mixing flute with recorder!

[pooblidoo]

GEEZ PEOPLE it's not a FLUTE a FLUTE is blown sideways through a embrochure hole, a RECORDER is not.

[screaming4moreramen]

Technically a recorder is a flute because of the way the sound is made.(The air being blown through the hole that cuts the air.)So recorders ocarinas even bottles are technically flutes.

[HyperAndHappy]

I asked my grade 4 music teacher if could play this but she said no and laughed.

[jazzobassoon]

my contrabassoon look like a babie...

[Lui191]

incredibile

[gilsonbsantos]

talk about exercising the lung !!!!

[BahsMusic]

Man that is BIG - in case you didnt notice.

Are you speaking dutch? :P

[rubendeleeuw]

Yeah,

he's speaking Dutch...

[jennettemccurdysfan]

it looks like a bassoon

[antijelly]

it looks like a basoon? basoons are tiny compared to this thing!

IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A FREAKIN TELEPHONE POLE

[BayAreaBiker2001]

Bassoons are shorter because they are folded in half. Rackets are smaller still because the bore is folded many times.

[deadworms]

@antijelly there are sub contrabassoon, which are rare, bigger than that thing

[KK437]

its big ;~;

[JaredLang1234]

If the lowest note is Bb, how would you play the B natural a semitone above it if there's only one key controlling the bottom hole?

[Camilodigiorgi]

On original recorders from the renaissance and baroque periods, this note would rarely be played. Even today low C# in a C recorder or a low F# on a F recorder is rarely used. Most of the repertoire is written in keys with no more than 3 # or 3 flats. In smaller solo instruments in C, a cadence of D major key using C# would never come from the bottom of the instrument. This enormous recorder is made for simple bass lines, it would never play half a tone over its botton note.

[froggielover08]

Bb where? like in teh bass cleft or below middle c? where?!

[kepla]

The guy does actually tell us that the lowest note it does is the Bb just below the bottom C on a violoncello. That bottom C is two octaves below middle C, as it is an octave below alto bottom C which is itself an octave below middle C. If this instrument can play two full octaves (can it ?) then I reckon it would just cover the whole of the bass clef nicely.

[BrianBoru314]

If I understood him correctly the lowest note is B flat, a note one tone lower than what a cello can play. This would make it just over two octaves lower than middle C. On a bass clef you would have to draw three lines below the bottom of the clef and place a note on the space below the lowest line.

[bassscape]

Muhahaha, my double bass still goes lower!

[dougieboy88]

So does my electronic keyboard.

[DERrockigeSUPPY]

i know what i want for christmas

[catsruledogsdrool23]

gosh thats like 20 times bigger than my little soprano recorder!

[AlainNaigeon]

Probably 8 times, because it's an 8 feet C recorder.

[vincedog3]

absolutely amazing. I want one. Where do I get one. thanks for the posting.

[NorbertZF]

Sort of like putting your mouth around a 16' Principal organ pipe! I'd like to here this in a consort of recorders. Bet it sounds just like an organ pedal stop.

[Markworth]

Wow. I figured this thing would sound awful. Instead, my jaw dropped.

[dbrockbassoon]

This is so cool! The sound is amazing!

[wondyyy]

OMG, i want this flute NOW

[Sticky1254]

It's a recorder >_>.

[BlackMist1234]

LOL

[kakumayama]

すげぇ・・・

[DangerousParadox]

that looks like a fire cracker.

lol.

[crazycooper14]

Anyone know if these are still being made and sold? I've seen the square ones but I like the round ones better for some reason

[LOTSOFHOBBIES]

luox like a Bayssoon and Contrabayss Clarinet mixt together

[Stratoman77]

Man,that baby sounds deep!Almost like a pipe organ's bass pedals.I have a quality tenor recorder about the size of a clarinet,but if I ever get super rich, I'll have to get one of these too!

[PrimaPunchy]

I LOVE BLOCK FLUTES, I didn't know the greatest flute is in my own country.

[kratosofluin]

In South Park, the kids tried to play the brown noise with those cheap school ones. If they had this, the whole school would shit themselves.

[facemash]

I didn't watch the video before commenting. You are still being a douche about it.

[Symphonyboy1]

Beautiful!! I want to write music for this instrument. Ever travel to the US to play gigs?? What's the written range of the instrument... does it read music in treble clef? Does it transpose?

[Bryguy8822]

I like how the guy below is making fun of the other for not being a native english speaker....

[sicilian3333]

how do you make one? id like to try.

[krushade100123]

wat is dat,a bass basson?

[nanoquaver]

"dat" is a sub-contrabass recorder, and you would know that if you read the caption. a "bass bassoon" is redundant. what you might be speaking of is a "contrabassoon", which this is not. open a music book.

[facemash]

The caption says nothing about a recorder. Get the piccolo out of your ass.

[nanoquaver]

the subtitles you fool

your E string is too tight.

sheesh

[euphfellowship]

It says "Recorders The Sub Contrabass". It's broken English, but I knew right away that this was a video about a sub contrabass recorder.

[RBenham]

Assuming the guy was making a series about various recorders, the English would be fine if he added a colon: "Recorders: the Sub-Contrabass". But, as it stands, anyone with a reasonable grasp of English would still work out that it's a recorder. Otherwise, what would the word "Recorders" be doing there??

[RonnieBass]

It's simply a wonderful bass instrument - I love all these types of basses! At this size it's reminiscent of a huge organ pipe but beautiful.

There were a couple of huge foot pedal operated basses in the past - the player stood on a high platform and bowed the strings. Not for the faint-hearted!!

[OcarinaSoulFlame2055]

Wow. For something so gigantic it has such a beautiful sound.

[yulgui]

this is the most biggest flute of the world

[DFendrrr]

there is still the sub sub-contrabass recorder and the hyperbass flute is the biggest

[Symphonyboy1]

no its not--there is a dounble contrabass flute which can play basically an octave below this

[jojojohnpau]

imagine trying to find a teacher for this beast lol

[ledormant]

I want to buy one!!

[FishPimp2589]

Whats the point??

Amazing though

[allengarvin]

Dolmetsch is working on a sub-sub-contrabass, which should be a 5th below this. Not as pretty as this one, since it's square, but it has traditional type keywork. Paetzold made square subcontrabasses out of plywood that were much easier to hold and finger.

[Vedsaj5000]

WHO NEEDS THESE INSTRUMENTS???

really nice though.

[hornmasta0610]

thats amazing!!!!

[bigheadknc5]

AWESOME! I didn't know that thing existed!

[JimiXpresion]

Wow,that's really cool instrument.

I bet you don't take it with you when you go for pick-nick,right? xa xa

[bibo0000]

LOL! lookks like a giant weed pipe, but pretty sick stuff

holy sht