When I was in junior high we went on a Field trip to visit the Houston Symphony Orchestra to see and hear all the instruments. A call went out for someone to request a song and an instrument to play it on. I got picked and asked if all the musicians knew "Flight of the Bumblebee" (everone did) and I picked this absolutely Titanic sized tuba. Hilarity ensued as that poor man absolutely could *not* make it through the peice for all his (and the orchestra's laughter). This happend in 1982 or so and I think it was my finest moment being a mischievious little brat for requesting those few minutes of pure musical flatulance.
Yoooo jeff...that flight of thr bumble bee is the shiznit broly..sheeesh I love it..dang I wish I could've been in it wit you broly..we played it at Morris brown college back in the days..played it as a trumpet fanfare back in high-school, an octave up..cheeeeeeezuuus...that was classic back in 92..screaming demons class of 93 aaayyee💯💯💥‼️‼️‼️👍🏿👍🏿
Tuba is one of the brass I tried to play in school, on top of trumpet. I never learnt how to properly play either. The most interesting thing I found out about tuba's is if you pat the mouth piece on a tuba or trumpet, you get a bit of noise out of it. Half the time as a AHDH kid in Grade 7 and 8 I just screwed around. I also tried ALto and Tanor Sax, didn't do well with them but did learn how to play a reed instrument at least.
The valves are just there for show. They said in another video that they don't actually work. Notice how the first and second valves don't have valve caps.
As a professional horn player,and have designed a few. This particular tuba, after examining it very closely,all the valve tubing is of the correct length an proportion. All it needs are 2 missing piston cap's a good dose of spittle on the piston valve plungers. And then place An add for giant with good copious lung capacity. Boom boom 😯
Ohh yea you really sound like a professional there with your " good dose of spittle on the piston valve plungers " Do you even know how valves work on a brass horn ? So because you turn on the fire siren horn in your community for every drizzle of rain drops , this makes you a professional horn blower ? I'm sure you are full of hot air though .
Sounds more like the horn the dwarf blew when Thoren led the charge from the Lonely Mountain Dwarf Kingdom!!! I loved the deep sound, but then, I like bass instruments.
It does have pistons, it just needs to be fixed! If it is so valuable, why doesn't Carl Fisher pay to have it fixed in working condition. It will work like a regular Tuba. It also probably has some leaks, but a good repair technician could fix that easily!
Why in the world hasn't Carl Fischer Music had this tuba rebuilt? It would be a small price to pay for preserving an important piece of musical history.
Does anyone besides me remember Gerard Hoffnung ? His series of London concerts in the late 50s were the ancestors of music spoofs. He himself was a tubist & often featured the instrument seen here; the Subcontrabass tuba especially featured in his arrangment of a Chopin Mazurka for tuba quartet & Jacobs' composition "Variations on Annie Laurie" scored for bass instruments. From what I can recall, there are only 2 of these instruments in existence.
1:11 It's not a Normal Tuba, it doesn't actually have any pistons and Valves, it can only play the fundamental pitches which would be I, V. I'm checking to see if it's the worlds biggest Bugle, I've been in contact with the genius book of world records, I haven't heard back yet.
A)that would be better classified as a Bombardon B)the valves are there, they just are stuck and need to be worked on C) You need to send that sucker to Oberloh woodwind and brass works for a full restoration
+Noa Leslie Nope... the characteristic that sets apart a bugle from a trumpet, tuba, etc is not the fact that it can't play chromatically, it has to do with the shape of the bell and the conical bore.
All the valves and their tubing are there; it just needs to be repaired and the two missing valve caps replaced, and then the whole scale can be played. I imagine this whopper bears the same relationship to a regular Bb tuba that a Bb tuba does to a baritone - it's an octave lower, which means it can reach the A below the piano. My BBb tuba can reach the bottom A on the piano, so the extra octave this beast can produce would be equivalent to a 64 foot stop on a pipe organ.
What do you mean there are no valves?? there are obviously 3 valves on it. 2 of which are missing buttons. It just hasn't been taken very good care of. it just needs repairs and referbating.
um it clearly has three valves and all the tubing for them. they are just seized in the open position only allowing you to play open tones. This is not a bugle. Please restore it.
@@suserman7775 Yeah, it means the length of tubing would increase and thus the natural frequency would decrease, allowing you to play the full chromatic scale
So I have absolutely no idea how brass instruments work. I’m a woodwind player, so someone please tell me if this is improbable. But could you make something where four people blow into the tuba at the same time. If they are coordinated you could play music that’d sound great
I play clarinet and saxophone and, just recently, tuba. On a woodwind, the sound comes from the vibrating reed. On brass instrument, the sound comes from your vibrating lips. So, brass instruments are really "lip-wind" instruments. I made that up, sorry. Just like the instrument of a woodwind amplifies the sound of the reed's vibration, the brass instrument amplifies the vibration of the player's lips. So, muliple vibrating lips = multiple notes being amplified.
In band class in high school I was in drum section and my best friend played the tuba, so naturally I would often put water bottles and plastic wrappers in his tuba while he'd play. Oh the nostalgia
I am willing to bet that with bass notes that low, it can be heard 16 blocks away. Or, at the very least, throughout the building. That is a massive Tuba.
Those valves look reasonably genuine - most certainly they can - and should - be made to work on this curiosity of an instrument!!! This is the instrument which could allow an orchestra to fully reach down in sound to 32'-C, something which only an organ - or a Bösendorfer *"Imperialflügel"* - can actually do.
I have heard several different bass flutes (and reeds) played, but did not know anyone had made a contra bass tuba. Most of these really large instruments are difficult to transport and difficult to play....all are custom made.
“You have fewer notes you can play.”
That’s tubad.
Yawn
PLSSSSS
Lmao
That’s tufunny
@@iconicben5805 Wowww
Now we need a giant piano and giant flute for a whole orchestra of big instruments
Already is a giant flute, it’s called a subcontrabass
@@ss-shapeshifter. no, the hyperbass is more superior because it is a percussion instrument because the notes are so low!
@@timmynewtron10yearsago45 ohhh ok thanks for the info
“orchestra of big instruments” with a flute and piano
@@timmynewtron10yearsago45 Double Subacontrabass Flute is even bigger and deeper notes
Bass section- *Heavy Breathing*
Lol Me after playing the tuba
Lol Me after playing the Tuba
+iliketrains0pwned Not really and I have asthma.
+Spartan375X I have asthma and I play a brass instrument. I'm fine
Spartan375X ^Bass section- *Heavy Wheezing*
When I was in junior high we went on a Field trip to visit the Houston Symphony Orchestra to see and hear all the instruments. A call went out for someone to request a song and an instrument to play it on. I got picked and asked if all the musicians knew "Flight of the Bumblebee" (everone did) and I picked this absolutely Titanic sized tuba. Hilarity ensued as that poor man absolutely could *not* make it through the peice for all his (and the orchestra's laughter). This happend in 1982 or so and I think it was my finest moment being a mischievious little brat for requesting those few minutes of pure musical flatulance.
if only there was a recording of that... wait, sub-contrabass tubas are still used in bands/orchestras?
Absolutely hilarious!
Yoooo jeff...that flight of thr bumble bee is the shiznit broly..sheeesh I love it..dang I wish I could've been in it wit you broly..we played it at Morris brown college back in the days..played it as a trumpet fanfare back in high-school, an octave up..cheeeeeeezuuus...that was classic back in 92..screaming demons class of 93 aaayyee💯💯💥‼️‼️‼️👍🏿👍🏿
I'll bet the tuba player in the Canadian Brass could play it--he can play the Clarinet Polka up to speed on his tuba.
1:38 are we gonna ignore how beautiful he played this
I wonder what music it is. It sounds really nice
@@giovannifalvo1729 It's a Rochut/Bordogni etude. I know Derek, and he's a phenomenal tuba player.
Yeah it’s a really good one
I play these "fundamental" notes when in the toilet 💩💩💩💩💩💩
Well yeah, he's principal tuba for a major professional orchestra - of course he sounds amazing playing his own instrument.
This man is playing so good and if I played one note on that I would run out of air even though I’m a tuba player myself
As someone who hoisted up the mighty tuba I have respect for the player of the tuba
1:54 He takes a massive hit from the Tuba Bong
Tubong
I’m so high rn and this just made me lmao
🤣🤣🤣
IM SCREAMING ABAGAVAOAVSOSBEIWHAHAVWIWVWJW
The closest thing to a real life volcano bong 🌋.
No one is talking about the lungs required to play it. This Tuba player is a beast for playing it as well as the condition of it allowed!
Well, he did. That was the conclusion of the video. _Literally_ the last words spoken in this video, so...
All kinds of people were talking about it, before you made your comment. You're just too lazy to find them.
Quick question, is it unsinkable?
Holy crap, I almost spat at my screen.
lmao
PH_Brony130 lol
PH_Brony130 it's: un(zinc)able
Spartan117JMC not funny
Tuba is one of the brass I tried to play in school, on top of trumpet. I never learnt how to properly play either. The most interesting thing I found out about tuba's is if you pat the mouth piece on a tuba or trumpet, you get a bit of noise out of it. Half the time as a AHDH kid in Grade 7 and 8 I just screwed around.
I also tried ALto and Tanor Sax, didn't do well with them but did learn how to play a reed instrument at least.
We put a bari sax reed on a Sousa in marching band and it sounded like muto from godzilla
2:11 for all you poor souls who just wanted to hear the thing play...
That was Reville
Hey the person who plays is just like the tuba itself too if you know what I mean ;)
Thank you
Lol
@@coiledbug2394 ohhhh you!!!! 🤭
"I've emailed and been in contact with the guiness book of world records... I haven't heard back yet"
See Peter Griffin playing a giant Tuba is epic
give this man a medal
+MrDonnieVachon
Peter played the Trombone ya silly.
I was looking for that comment :-)
Came here into the comments section looking for a Peter Griffin reference. Than you good sir.
he actually does play the tuba
You should pair this with the octobasse. It would be the rumble of the orchestra!
Now that's what I want to see!
É algo a se considerar.
"it doesn't have any pistons or valves." -Proceeds to show images of the valves.
ikr
I bet the valves are just in terrible shape and could be restored
The valves are just there for show. They said in another video that they don't actually work. Notice how the first and second valves don't have valve caps.
Just because the valves don't work now, doesn't mean they didn't once work. This is no excuse for bad journalism.
valve caps come off/fall off tho...
why the heck would they be there for show?
As a professional horn player,and have designed a few. This particular tuba, after examining it very closely,all the valve tubing is of the correct length an proportion. All it needs are 2 missing piston cap's a good dose of spittle on the piston valve plungers. And then place An add for giant with good copious lung capacity. Boom boom 😯
Ohh yea you really sound like a professional there with your " good dose of spittle on the piston valve plungers " Do you even know how valves work on a brass horn ? So because you turn on the fire siren horn in your community for every drizzle of rain drops , this makes you a professional horn blower ? I'm sure you are full of hot air though .
I thought this meant a tuba from the titanic...
I wasn't disappointed but this isn't what I thought.
Lego Man me too😂
Lego Man me too lol
Lego Man same
Prankster Aleks me to
Me too.
世界には特徴的で見て驚くような楽器が沢山あって面白いな🤔
I don't get it.... share 3 trues.
The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!
+Frabjous Yes.
Huh
Sounds more like the horn the dwarf blew when Thoren led the charge from the Lonely Mountain Dwarf Kingdom!!! I loved the deep sound, but then, I like bass instruments.
Imagine 2:13 playing as the king makes the final charge! ...Then apply palm directly to face.
I was thinking the same thing! Bombur could play this thing. Sometimes it takes a dwarf....
Someone needs to make a Titanic Tuba boss theme.
heavy tuba gunner’s elder sibling
1:55 That sound is hilarious :)
Ha
It is a wet fart
POT
L
I'm addicted, lol. I want more of that helicopter tuba haha
Doctor: Big Carl the Tuba doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt you.
Big Carl the Tuba:
I like how he had to take a breath every two notes.
I love how the frequency's so low you can hear the individual oscillations of the waveform! That's awesome!
普通のチューバがユーフォにみえる……
なんて大きさや……
あんなデカイチューバ肺活量なかったら音すらでなさそう……笑
也是哦横渡超市看到一我的✋
不知道为什么这么大声我的内心却不自觉
一直是你不喜欢别人在背后的我都不懂我为什么会这么说穿你喜欢的人在这里的一切....... 是一件事情很简单……在这里有很多朋友都没有什么的感觉？是不是真的没有必要
"so son, what instrument are you gonna play?"
*pulls this out*
It does have pistons, it just needs to be fixed! If it is so valuable, why doesn't Carl Fisher pay to have it fixed in working condition. It will work like a regular Tuba. It also probably has some leaks, but a good repair technician could fix that easily!
So the orchestra needs a resident plumber. I'm sure it is doable.
Petition to have this and a contrabass clarinet and a contrabass flute and a contrabass trumpet etc. etc. play together in a band.
Don't forget the Lupophone (world's lowest oboe).
Why in the world hasn't Carl Fischer Music had this tuba rebuilt? It would be a small price to pay for preserving an important piece of musical history.
Derek sounds great on that huge tuba. I love it!
Does anyone besides me remember Gerard Hoffnung ? His series of London concerts in the late 50s were the ancestors of music spoofs. He himself was a tubist & often featured the instrument seen here; the Subcontrabass tuba especially featured in his arrangment of a Chopin Mazurka for tuba quartet & Jacobs' composition "Variations on Annie Laurie" scored for bass instruments. From what I can recall, there are only 2 of these instruments in existence.
1:29 A Bell on a Normal Tuba is around 18-19 Inches, this one is just about 41 Inches so it's much much larger than your average Tuba.
last time something dropped like that it ended WW2
Wow just wow😐
Ended or began? 🤔
Fernando Gomez Dank Comment of the week
Fernando Gomez hey
WW3 is starting now get ready lmaooo
1:11 It's not a Normal Tuba, it doesn't actually have any pistons and Valves, it can only play the fundamental pitches which would be I, V. I'm checking to see if it's the worlds biggest Bugle, I've been in contact with the genius book of world records, I haven't heard back yet.
What if someone fell into there and got lost?
they can serve as a mute
Bigger than New York apartments
That is why it weighs 100 lbs.
@@johndennison2769 lol
That's the real life final tuba boss
my chest hurt watching this
Only a guy with the lungs of a horse can really play that ginormous tuba.
A)that would be better classified as a Bombardon B)the valves are there, they just are stuck and need to be worked on C) You need to send that sucker to Oberloh woodwind and brass works for a full restoration
We need a second one of these, they're the musical equivalent of army tanks.
This is how they get the 'brown note '.
oh, I get it - like Molly Brown from the Titanic (unsinkable)
katuroo you don't get the joke because that's not it
the also called pants changer notes
well if the tone hites between 6 or 8 Hz you can't hear it but you body will and some parts of your body might "loosen up"
South Park reference?
I play Baritone B.C in my school band. And I love it!
If it cannot play chromatically, then it is not a tuba. It is just a titanic bugle
+Noa Leslie Nope... the characteristic that sets apart a bugle from a trumpet, tuba, etc is not the fact that it can't play chromatically, it has to do with the shape of the bell and the conical bore.
All the valves and their tubing are there; it just needs to be repaired and the two missing valve caps replaced, and then the whole scale can be played. I imagine this whopper bears the same relationship to a regular Bb tuba that a Bb tuba does to a baritone - it's an octave lower, which means it can reach the A below the piano. My BBb tuba can reach the bottom A on the piano, so the extra octave this beast can produce would be equivalent to a 64 foot stop on a pipe organ.
I love seeing instruments like this. Versions of instruments we all know and love going so low. I love seeing that! ♡
Gigantic man playing on a gigantic tuba now seems very compact
As a tuba player it's always cool to come back to this video to watch it
Can you explain why they say it has no pistons or valves, when they even open the valve and there are 3 pistons on it?
I need to hear the Uncle Ruckus theme on this
What do you mean there are no valves?? there are obviously 3 valves on it. 2 of which are missing buttons. It just hasn't been taken very good care of. it just needs repairs and referbating.
yep
just cause it's got 3 valves doesn't mean those valves are real
She probably meant they are just for show and don't actually work.
That tuba really does need some TLC. If *I* had it, I wouldn't be toting it around like that. I'd have it cleaned, repaired, shined, and tuned.
L
If this was played in a musical setting that tuba player would die of being out of breath.
And people thought marching with snare drums was hard, try using this.
funny thought! x^D
it is hard sometimes fyi
+Alex Davis ok?
yeah marching tuba is harder it's all on one shoulder and it's heavier
Marching with a quad is wayyyyy harder 😂😂
Headline: Muscian dies when giant tuba falls on them!
Defeated the Tuba Gunner and searching for the next boss... This can be a challenging enemy.
I cant stop watching this vid just the end when he plays it, i love that part
I thought the normal tuba was big.
That’s the tuba sound I make when I either fart or sh*t my pants with
Memes aside the amount of air required to do the thing he did at the end is insane, literal freak of nature
Legend has it she is still waiting around from them.
DND 5e allows Outlander background to be proficient in one instrument.
I bet they didn't stop to consider the contrabass tuba.
Finally! They've discovered the brown note!
Thought i was the only one who pooped them selves during this video.
thx man
I felt the vibration here in Italy whe you have played that Tuba! 😂😁 Beautiful Bass Sound!
um it clearly has three valves and all the tubing for them. they are just seized in the open position only allowing you to play open tones. This is not a bugle. Please restore it.
Seized open? Does that mean that if able to close the valves, the lowest note would be even lower than what we heard?
@@suserman7775 Yeah, it means the length of tubing would increase and thus the natural frequency would decrease, allowing you to play the full chromatic scale
THEY DON'T HAVE PISTONS. JFC
I’m just glad they were able to salvage something from the wreck.❤
So I have absolutely no idea how brass instruments work. I’m a woodwind player, so someone please tell me if this is improbable. But could you make something where four people blow into the tuba at the same time. If they are coordinated you could play music that’d sound great
Only with one way valves for each person so you aren't breathing each others breath. and it actually all goes INTO the tuba!
I play clarinet and saxophone and, just recently, tuba. On a woodwind, the sound comes from the vibrating reed. On brass instrument, the sound comes from your vibrating lips. So, brass instruments are really "lip-wind" instruments. I made that up, sorry. Just like the instrument of a woodwind amplifies the sound of the reed's vibration, the brass instrument amplifies the vibration of the player's lips. So, muliple vibrating lips = multiple notes being amplified.
This guy is a hero for trying to get a recognizable sound out of that thing!
In band class in high school I was in drum section and my best friend played the tuba, so naturally I would often put water bottles and plastic wrappers in his tuba while he'd play. Oh the nostalgia
That is the biggest tuba I've ever seen! You have to find someone 7 ft plus with larg lungs to play that big thing.
SUDDENLY
FLIGT OF THE BUMBLEBEE
I see you everywhere
+gabe waters Woa
Steak Hair If he played the flight of the tuba on that thing he would pass out
If you can play it slowly, you can play it fast
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This is THE TUBA that makes people crap their pants.
Actually super impressive that he could sorta play that thing.
A great way to get even with those upstairs neighbor's loud, all-night party.
team this up with the octobasse for the ultimate band :P
+Main Drain Studios octobass… not to be confused with octopus :D
yes. yes. let's do it! I'd pay front row price!
and subcontrabass flute
That’s a beast ! and he is so right ,it takes a lot of lungs to make it sound ,only for the brave and athletic musicians ! Amazing instrument .
*after playing the Titanic Tuba*
Band teacher: And there's your warm up let's move on.
He should've played "My heart will go on"
Woah, he played the first etude for my region band tryouts!
A titanic playing a titanic. Either this tuba was made for him, or he was made for this tuba.
でっっっか………！！！
すごい でっか!! ははああ 面白い ^0^
If I had the opportunity to play that gigantic thing, I would've played the Uncle Ruckus theme.
I wish we could add this to the orchestra
The sound of the tuba... and the comments section... make for several minutes of near death laughter.
Tuba King’s final phase...
i feel like non-band kids would call that a trumpet
uau, que instrumento magnífico
“What instrument do you play?”
Oh the big Carl.
1:01 omg his quack is on point
I am willing to bet that with bass notes that low, it can be heard 16 blocks away. Or, at the very least, throughout the building. That is a massive Tuba.
I would have lost my breath with one blow 😂😂
"Gentleman it's been an honour for playing with you tonight"
So they're calling the tuba a bugle because the valves are broken? At least, that's what it looks like in the video.
Not broken valves. According to the video, they're just decorations.
It's a 'bugle' because it doesn't actually have valves.
Richard Austin It just seems weird that you would make the valves decorative but have working spit valves.
Schmidty why? When you play it there still will be condensation. Not spit lol
Those valves look reasonably genuine - most certainly they can - and should - be made to work on this curiosity of an instrument!!! This is the instrument which could allow an orchestra to fully reach down in sound to 32'-C, something which only an organ - or a Bösendorfer *"Imperialflügel"* - can actually do.
I’m a trumpet player so when I hear tubas play I’m like “oooo that’s low!!”🤣🤣
日本人はおるかーw
はる はる よかったいたー！
はる はる いたぁ！
おるよ
はーい
i don’t speak hentai
I have heard several different bass flutes (and reeds) played, but did not know anyone had made a contra bass tuba. Most of these really large instruments are difficult to transport and difficult to play....all are custom made.
I shall call it... Tyranituba Rex
There are tuning slides connected to the valve cylinders. I wonder what it would cost to have some custom valves machined for this?
AND I THOUGH THE TUBA WAS HUGE!
We need a freediver to attempt to play this
Sounds like the mother ship from Close Encounters!
The mothership was actually voiced by a tuba.
would appreciate a longer version of the vid. perhaps a brass ensemble? or, with the Octobass and a few other instuments?
That is one big tuba...