Contrabass

Jun, writes from Holland (I think), saying: Recently, I've built my own electronic upright bass (aka contrabass). ❋ Unknown (2004)

A Korean War veteran who emerged from the 1960s Chicago scene boosted by the activist collective Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mr. Braxton made important albums focused on saxophone improvisation and sonic experiments with every reed instrument available, from sopranino to the contrabass saxophone. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

The low components of each group (bassoon, bass/contrabass clarinet, tuba, double bass, trombone) are almost always present; the ombrous colors and more diffuse orchestration reduce extremes of exuberance or violence. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

There is a funny moment when Sam is cooking a rabbit which Gollum doesn't like, and the mood is musically spun with the contrabass clarinet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The score, burbling and grunting murkily with various contrabass woodwind and brass, and spangling with the metallic additions of electric violin, guitar and keyboard, oscillates between styles and harmonies, from Shostakovich at his more benign towards the complex patter of Sondheim. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Soundbite of music) RIVERA: During the day, this mega-facility is flooded with thousands of young people eager to become better musicians, like 15 - year-old Diana Tardes, who plays the contrabass, an instrument almost twice as big as she is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mike SvobodaAt first this seemed like somewhat of a hollow proposition, but as the piece went on it grew progressively more hypnotic and seductive as it developed extended solo and duet combinations between Svoboda and Vicki Ray on the prepared piano, Aashish Khan on the sarode, Rachel Rudich on the shakuhachi, Vinny Golia on the contrabass flute and Swapan Chaudhuri on the tabla. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Designing and building a new and better contrabass saxophone? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Music: Cor Fuhler - analog synthesizer, Wilbert de Joode – contrabass, Colin McLean - electronics ❋ Michael Evans (2006)

The ranges of their sounds spans from the lowest pitch of a contrabass to the highest pitch of a piccolo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Check out the gallery, with sound samples, for the beer bottle organ, ceramic horns, the gigantic contrabass saxophone, a Lego harpsichord, a nano guitar made from silicon by electron beam lithography, a Stalacpipe organ that plays three acres of stalactites, etc ... alongside which the theremin looks positively mundane. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

While Månsson plays plenty of flute and recorder on this recording, he most distinguishes himself when he plays a Baroque instrument called a sub contrabass recorder. ❋ Smg58 (2006)

The biggest change in their sound comes from the replacement of the Australian digeridoo with a more tonally flexible baroque instrument called the sub-contrabass recorder. ❋ Smg58 (2006)