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World's Largest Flute: the Subcontrabass
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.⬐ mitchbobBig woodwinds are fun. I got to play a contrabass clarinet in college, where you feel the lowest notes even more than you hear them. The opening of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand [1]--written for Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig's brother--has an amazing solo for contrabassoon [2]. And there's Anthony Braxton and his contrabass sax [3]. For all these low instruments, it's best to experience them live.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Ha...
⬐ Sosh101Interesting instrument, but I dislike this journalistic style. We didn't really get to hear the instrument even.⬐ DFHippie⬐ dvhWell, a few notes. As she said, it isn't really a solo instrument.⬐ elihuShe plays some notes at about 1:10 without the high-pitched flute backing track.Kind of surprised it has a lot of harmonics. Flutes generally produce something that's at least close to a pure sine wave, but apparently not this one.
⬐ dylan604I like how the melodic line is the backing track to you. This instrument would be the backing track of the music.⬐ elihuGiven the story is about a particular instrument, it was kind of annoying that you can only really hear it by itself for a brief segment. If I was listening to the music just to listen to music, then yeah, the extreme bass flute wouldn't be what I would be focusing on.Similar is traditional Slovak long flute "fujara": https://youtu.be/SuMxWlVYP2o⬐ madamelicI am a little confused.The story said there is only three subcontrabasses in the world, the smaller one that the conductor isn't shown playing, and only one in the US, but it seems like there are three in this orchestra unless there is something that looks quite identical to one or something.
⬐ paisawallaDoes anyone know about the PVC pipe comment? Is there some common knowledge about how to DIY build bass flutes?⬐ mmmrtl⬐ glitcherHaven't watched yet, but there seems to be a whole world of PVC contrabass flutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA⬐ EvanAnderson⬐ robbedpeterHoly crap! That's Dave Benham[0] who has answered metric buttloads of questions on Stack Overflow re: CMD.EXE. If there's anybody who knows about arcane and idiosyncratic behavior in CMD.EXE it's him!He wrote a really fun snake implementation in batch, too[1].
[0] https://stackoverflow.com/users/1012053/dbenham [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZeDoZjnsc
⬐ mmmrtlWow, what a cool set of obsessions! I love that he used his own flute improv as the soundtrack to his batch snake video.Overtone flute tutorials are very common and easy to make. There are a lot of traditional cultures that used contrabass woodwinds as the foundation for overtone instruments.This guy's channel is great!
⬐ dylan604I was going to suggest the Blue Man Group, but then remembered they are percussive instruments.⬐ cutchinI don't know much about the flute world, but there's a guy on youtube who's been extending his contrabassoon's range to absurd new lows for years now. Here he is seven years back:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nRRwTnSbM
In the ensuing years he's been manufacturing a proper subcontrabassoon and here's a more recent video of its progress:
Really intrigued by the instrument. Would be nice to see the whole thing on screen for more than 1.5 seconds without jumping to all kinds of zoomed in shots of who knows what. Horrible video editing!