Octocontralto clarinet and piccolo A-flat clarinet : Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Cyrille Mercadier et Benjamin Masciotta dans un duo improbable pour clarinette piccolo en La bémol et clarinette octocontralto : la Danse de la Fée Dragée de Casse-Noisette de Tchaikovsky. Ce modèle unique de clarinette octocontralto a été fabriquée en 1971 par l'usine Leblanc France à la Couture Boussey.

Cyrille Mercadier and Benjamin Masciotta in an unlikely duet for A-flat piccolo clarinet and octocontralto clarinet : the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. This unique octocontralto clarinet, was made in 1971 by France Leblanc factory in La Couture Boussey.

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[sfbassoonguy]

Bravo!! Thanks for sharing the opportunity to hear two of the LEAST known and heard members of the clarinet family! More please!

How about contraoctobass clarinet??

[artehaleychoke]

OMG ITS SO CUTE I WANNA EAT IT!!!!

[Apocacyber]

@jamason987 They don't make Eb contrabass. It's automatically a contralo; while the music says contrabass, it's incorrect.

[jamason987]

My friend and I are doing a simalar dou exsept I am playing the e flat contra bass clarinet instead of the alto and it is really hard cause we both have melodies and conter melodies. We took a normal clairnet dou and becaue we are both in e flat we don't have to transpose, it is still a work in progress but it is going to sound awesome!!! :)

Really high, really low :)

[Bandestrazz]

Funniest thing I have ever watched. I play contra alto in clarinet choir... So much fun :)

[CaraStar100]

@xinx03ovcm There is only the one Octocontrabass in the word. Shame! Made by Leblanc, but he died in 1999 at age 99 so no one can make any more. They're not allowed to take it out to look at it or play it.

[sackadoodle]

Lovely intonation on the piccolo clarinet! I can't comment on the octobass cos I have no idea what notes those lovely grunts and growls correspond to!

[xinx03ovcm]

@sfbassoonguy there's one in a museum with broken pads and a number of points to be fixed....it doesnt play very well...at least that's what he said to me in reply!

[hungryYogibear]

Wow! And i have trouble keeping an Eflat clarinet in tune! You did a great job!

[greatest2002]

Bravo....nice clarinets.....

[dmitrislepovitch]

haha, you guys rock!

Tchaikovsky should have definitely brought these two horns from France to Russia (if they were built at the time, of course) instead of the celesta :D (just kidding)