Thanks to Richard Meek at Texas Tech University for letting me rent his sarrusophone and to Christopher Raymond for continuing the Bassoon Etude of the Week program.
I built my own contrabass instrument from a PVC pipe, a rubber glove, 3 straws and a small plastic tube, it's around 4 foot long and only has one curve right at the top, it can only play 9 notes but it doesn't use any Reeds, just the Rubber glove inflates tightly around the top of the tube at a curve and vibrates against the pipe, I call it the Eb Contrabass Globophone.
nightlife, good for you, but what you built was not a Sarrusophone if you made it from PVC pipe, A Sarrusophone is by definition conical bored, and that is not something that results from use of cylindrical PVC pipe. Sounds like what you made is more along the lines of a Rackett.......
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 , not only is the ophicleide lip vibrated rather than a reeded instrument, but it is also more conically bored, and an entirely different system of keys from any woodwind instrument.
Haha, yeah, I should probably change my reverb settings, at least with sarrusophone. My study is too acoustically dead to do nothing (unless it's an audition recording, of course), but this was perhaps overkill. Oh well.
@@pearspeedruns they dont all have to be. Lucky chops themselves have a Baritone saxophone player, tenor/bari sax player/clarinet/bass clarinet player, and a percussionist on a drum set! The name is a little misleading.
there is one on ebay for 8000 euro's, it's the first one on there again since 5 years. Not so many of them are built, they were not so succesfully introduced. I think the story was that the saxophone was built (partly) with the intention to replace clarinets in harmony and symphony orchestras to save money on big groups of musicians (since it is louder one sax could replace 10 or more clarinets), but instead of common use in classical music it got succesfully adopted in other genres. The Sarrusophone had the same idea i think for the double reeds in classical music, but it got less adopted, so only a few are built. In my opinion/taste it sounds by far not so nice as the bassoon it meant to improve in loudness, nor does it fit so well in pop/rock/blues, because the sound is just not as broadly usable as the saxophone's sound (that i find surprisingly lovely when used for Bach in quartets and quintets, too, by the way). I think many people do not really love the sound, so they stay rare and i don't know of any contemporary builders, the ones on ebay i saw where all secondhand originals. So the high price is mostly because of the historical value i think. But if you love the sound (i can understand that, it is a specific sound and so it might be an "acquired taste") and can spent this kind of amount, then know that the sarrussophones on ebay mostly go for 9000-10.000 and the price of the current one just got lower by 1000 euro's because of not being sold for half a year until now. Good luck ;-)
What’s the sarrusophones lowest note? Is it a concert B flat like your average bassoon or low C bass clarinet? Assuming it’s not due to the extensions you used.
Same lowest note as what I call a "default" contrabass sax, a low concert D♭₁. Since the contrabass sarrusophone is an E♭ instrument, it would have that lowest note be a B♭. The music he shown though was in concert pitch (e.g. how a bassoon would play it). Also, there are contrabass saxes that can go to their low A, or a concert C₁, same thing. He used two extensions put in the contrabass sarrusophone's bell to play a low A and low B♭ (concert C₁ and B♭₀, respectively). It can't normally play that low without those extensions added.
Neither; it's bore profile is intermediate between the double-reeds and saxophones, with a sax-fingering system and a bassoon-double-reed. I'd probably group it slightly more closely with double-reeds than saxophones, but I'm sure there are sax players that disagree.
phantom8856, even the slightest bit of research, for example checking Wikipedia, would answer that question for you in an instant. There is no way at all that a Sarrusophone could be considered to be either a bassoon or Saxophone. Geez.
@phantom8856 , so, what you are saying is that you are too lazy to even bother to look something up on Wikipedia, so as to be a better informed person, but you are willing to just write an ignorant comment on UA-cam for all the world to see and ridicule. Adults try to better themselves through constant learning. Children just expect others to do everything for them. And you think "I" need to grow up....guess what, I already have.
@masonguy9807 , "one is useless and the other isn't". Well, the only award you will get for that is the Amazing Ignorance Award. If you don't know what you are talking about, why do you write comments that can only make other people shake their heads?
@@youtuuba giving me an ignorance award is rich coming from an arrogant asshat commenting like a prick about a 3 year old comment I made in highschool, get back to work or something
Well, there's a thing that didn't exist before today...
Hello always nice to see another composer especially one such as yourself 😁👍
The sarrusophone was patented in 1856, only 10 years after the saxophone.
the higher notes sound remarkably similar to a cello/contrabass
I built my own contrabass instrument from a PVC pipe, a rubber glove, 3 straws and a small plastic tube, it's around 4 foot long and only has one curve right at the top, it can only play 9 notes but it doesn't use any Reeds, just the Rubber glove inflates tightly around the top of the tube at a curve and vibrates against the pipe, I call it the Eb Contrabass Globophone.
Can you post a video of it? Would be great to see!
you should definitely make a video about it, or at least post a picture. It sounds totally cool
Are you Spanish speaker? Because I love the name XD (Globófono?)
nightlife, good for you, but what you built was not a Sarrusophone if you made it from PVC pipe, A Sarrusophone is by definition conical bored, and that is not something that results from use of cylindrical PVC pipe. Sounds like what you made is more along the lines of a Rackett.......
Can’t wait for the next sub contra bassoon video
Sounds like a floppy drive programmed to play low notes
Just yesterday, I asked my best friend to come up with an instrument and they suggested a bassoon made of brass. Then this video appeared. Wow
Ophicleide also sort of fits that description.
Ophicleide is a cupped mouthpiece brass instrument though. this is much closer.
@@Finetales , well no it does not if you actually know what an ophicleide is.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 , not only is the ophicleide lip vibrated rather than a reeded instrument, but it is also more conically bored, and an entirely different system of keys from any woodwind instrument.
Nice work!!! Reverb makes everything better
Haha, yeah, I should probably change my reverb settings, at least with sarrusophone. My study is too acoustically dead to do nothing (unless it's an audition recording, of course), but this was perhaps overkill. Oh well.
The dramatic pause before the last note!!
I'm so eager to see the subcontrabasson
I've been wanting to have a sarrusophone for so long :(
I feel like this would be pretty cool in one of those brass gig band (what are they called?) like lucky chops
Brass band
Except it's not a brass instrument.
@@uply5FOi noooo that's not what lucky chops is. They're a brass band.
@@pearspeedruns they dont all have to be. Lucky chops themselves have a Baritone saxophone player, tenor/bari sax player/clarinet/bass clarinet player, and a percussionist on a drum set! The name is a little misleading.
Nice extensions!
Pff, Whats piano?
Where did you get your sarrusophone?
Capable of producing the Brown Note?
Yay
Please tell me you sightread this
Where can I purchase one of these lovely things?
there is one on ebay for 8000 euro's, it's the first one on there again since 5 years. Not so many of them are built, they were not so succesfully introduced. I think the story was that the saxophone was built (partly) with the intention to replace clarinets in harmony and symphony orchestras to save money on big groups of musicians (since it is louder one sax could replace 10 or more clarinets), but instead of common use in classical music it got succesfully adopted in other genres. The Sarrusophone had the same idea i think for the double reeds in classical music, but it got less adopted, so only a few are built. In my opinion/taste it sounds by far not so nice as the bassoon it meant to improve in loudness, nor does it fit so well in pop/rock/blues, because the sound is just not as broadly usable as the saxophone's sound (that i find surprisingly lovely when used for Bach in quartets and quintets, too, by the way). I think many people do not really love the sound, so they stay rare and i don't know of any contemporary builders, the ones on ebay i saw where all secondhand originals. So the high price is mostly because of the historical value i think. But if you love the sound (i can understand that, it is a specific sound and so it might be an "acquired taste") and can spent this kind of amount, then know that the sarrussophones on ebay mostly go for 9000-10.000 and the price of the current one just got lower by 1000 euro's because of not being sold for half a year until now. Good luck ;-)
What’s the sarrusophones lowest note? Is it a concert B flat like your average bassoon or low C bass clarinet? Assuming it’s not due to the extensions you used.
Same lowest note as what I call a "default" contrabass sax, a low concert D♭₁. Since the contrabass sarrusophone is an E♭ instrument, it would have that lowest note be a B♭. The music he shown though was in concert pitch (e.g. how a bassoon would play it).
Also, there are contrabass saxes that can go to their low A, or a concert C₁, same thing. He used two extensions put in the contrabass sarrusophone's bell to play a low A and low B♭ (concert C₁ and B♭₀, respectively). It can't normally play that low without those extensions added.
where can I get one of these?
itsdewey, from your local street corner Sarrusophone emporium, of course.
That Bb…
is sarrusophone considered a bassoon or a sax?
Neither; it's bore profile is intermediate between the double-reeds and saxophones, with a sax-fingering system and a bassoon-double-reed. I'd probably group it slightly more closely with double-reeds than saxophones, but I'm sure there are sax players that disagree.
@@Subcontrabassoon yeah, i play bassoon (switching to oboe since it’s hard to carry it around to school everyday) but i love how it sounds
phantom8856, even the slightest bit of research, for example checking Wikipedia, would answer that question for you in an instant. There is no way at all that a Sarrusophone could be considered to be either a bassoon or Saxophone. Geez.
@@youtuuba geez I’m sorry that I didn’t want to look that up grow up and get over yourself
@phantom8856 , so, what you are saying is that you are too lazy to even bother to look something up on Wikipedia, so as to be a better informed person, but you are willing to just write an ignorant comment on UA-cam for all the world to see and ridicule. Adults try to better themselves through constant learning. Children just expect others to do everything for them. And you think "I" need to grow up....guess what, I already have.
I want
I never understood the difference between bassoon and Sarrusophone
masonguy, I guess you never bothered to look it up....its is pretty easy to understand the difference.
@@youtuuba sound wise one is useless and the other isnt, other than that its a difference not worth mentioning
@masonguy9807 , "one is useless and the other isn't". Well, the only award you will get for that is the Amazing Ignorance Award. If you don't know what you are talking about, why do you write comments that can only make other people shake their heads?
@@youtuuba giving me an ignorance award is rich coming from an arrogant asshat commenting like a prick about a 3 year old comment I made in highschool, get back to work or something
Is it the same fingering as a saxophone
More or less. The basic fingering scheme is similar to saxophone, but there are significant differences.
High notes are low 😂