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Largest Flute: The Subcontrabass [video]
- dvh 5y agoSimilar is traditional Slovak long flute "fujara": https://youtu.be/SuMxWlVYP2o https://youtu.be/SuMxWlVYP2o
- Sosh101 5y agoInteresting instrument, but I dislike this journalistic style. We didn't really get to hear the instrument even.
- DFHippie 5y agoWell, a few notes. As she said, it isn't really a solo instrument.
- elihu 5y agoShe 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.
- dylan604 5y agoI like how the melodic line is the backing track to you. This instrument would be the backing track of the music.
- elihu 5y agoGiven 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.
- paisawalla 5y agoDoes anyone know about the PVC pipe comment? Is there some common knowledge about how to DIY build bass flutes?
- mmmrtl 5y agoHaven't watched yet, but there seems to be a whole world of PVC contrabass flutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA
- EvanAnderson 5y agoHoly 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 https://stackoverflow.com/users/1012053/dbenham [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZeDoZjnsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZeDoZjnsc
- mmmrtl 5y agoWow, what a cool set of obsessions! I love that he used his own flute improv as the soundtrack to his batch snake video.
- dylan604 5y agoI was going to suggest the Blue Man Group, but then remembered they are percussive instruments.
- cutchin 5y agoI 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 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQADWh3D8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQADWh3D8s
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- glitcher 5y agoReally 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!
- mitchbob 5y agoBig 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_Hand_(Ravel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Ha... [2] https://youtu.be/Yme2336j81g https://youtu.be/Yme2336j81g [3] https://youtu.be/PuoBeYB-O1M https://youtu.be/PuoBeYB-O1M