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Very surprised not to see the Eb alto. It's the best clarinet and you missed it.

BUT: Sibelius doesn't play all voices in a single staff except when they are piano! That ist very frustrating. I need simple 4-part close chords for saxes in a big-band. Sibelius plays the top note only...

I need to speak with you ASAP.

If he was any other type of insurance executive he's brilliant If he was a health care insurance executive... it sucks and he's a terrible person Update: Oh, it was life insurance. And he wasn't responsible for the people that killed their rich spouses for cash...so he's cool.

Sounds like it should be called a "fartophone."

As an oboist, 3:51 is fucking insane.

It sounds like numerous pitches are out of tune.

Lowboe.

1:39 played without the 'mute'. Such a rich sound!

I'll have to use one in my large orchestral works... Where can I buy two of them?

Mince, j'aurais voulu acheter un contraforte. Y'a pas un lien chez Amazon ? 😂 ... 😮 oh !

Wish they made a similar innovation for the bassoon and the great-bassoon.

But can it go over systems? ;P

@5:50 "The only thing Mozart and Stockhausen had in common." Yep. The contrast being that audiences will pay to hear Mozart's music, but have to be paid to sit through Stockhausen's noise.

Can it blast?

Interesting to hear how English speaker pronounce "Gubaidulina".

O kurwa!

It's interesting. It would have been nice to have a bassoon to compare tones. BTW "contemporary music" is a self-cancelling phrase. (It also kills the box-office, since nobody wants to pay for noise.)

It’s just sounds like a bassoon

I once heard an orchestra from Hamburg perform Messiaen's _Des Canyons aux Étoiles_, and was astonished to hear how tellingly powerful their contrabassoon was. I was sitting in the high balcony of a very large auditorium, and this thing had a commanding presence even when heard from that far away. I'm convinced that this must have been a Contraforte. Many French composers preferred the contrabass sarrusophone to the French contrabassoon, and it is said that the sarrusophone is intended even when their scores specify "contrebasson." I've seen a French orchestration method whose entry on the French contrabassoon is simply a list of its many faults, followed by the entry on the sarrusophone which praises the instrument for its superior power, evenness and agility, citing as its only fault a weak high range. The Contraforte appears to be an ultimate solution, in that it has the power, evenness and agility of the sarrusophone, plus a stronger and much higher-reaching upper range. Also, its timbre is more truly bassoon-like, whereas the sarrusophone sounds something like a narrow-bore saxophone.

This is insane. So many times did I want an extra instrument in those lower registers to have the ability to sing like this.

I know this video is about Tchaikovsky‘s great orchestration, but man, was he a hit-machine!

That's basically a saxophone looking basoon

I wish we had this in band instead of the regular oboes. The regular oboes are so high pitched I have to cover my ears whenever they have a solo

SUPER LIKE 👍👍👍.

I’ve had the privilege of playing a Lupophone once. The instrument has an openness that I appreciated. The quality of the nasal human-like timbre is one that I would love to use more as a composer if the instrument becomes more popular!

Am Ende haben Sie meine Katze aufgewacht.

Clarinetist here. I love the sound of the lower register on this Lupophone. Please tell me though what would be the real selling point from this versus a Bassoon. It looks more modern, more in line with modern woodwind construction/manufacturing, more genre flexible than Bassoons and more powerful (a la contraforte vs contrabassoon). Besides blind tradition, why this would not displace the bassoon family? Or would this be the XXI century Sarrusophone?

I must have ended up here because of the research I am doing on Holst, trying to learn about everything that isn't The Planets - although I love The Planets. Anyway it piqued my interest as soon as I realised this things got a cable off a bicycle and so its smushed together my fondness for musical instruments and bicycles all into one. Wonderful sound.

Great video. I've watched it a few times 👍🏻👍🏻 What about the traditional contrabassoon Vs the new Contraforte? 🤪

So it's just a Möller oboe😅 with a sixteen foot 12 note extension

This is supposed to be the tenor oboe cuz its base scale is C3--C4, same as the "bass" oboe and the heckelphone, even tho it has an extended lower range. The cor anglais, whose base scale is F3--F4, is the alto member and the bassoon, whose base scale is F2--F3 is the baritone member (many know that the bassoon isn't a true bass).

"...the oboe family of instruments hasn't really had a proper bass instrument..." [Bassoon has entered the chat]

It sounds like a Bassoon.

I played the bass clarinet in high school from grade 10 (when my music teacher asked me if I'd like to switch from the b flat to the bass) to OAC (Grade 13 at the time in Canada). I loved playing it, especially since I am 4'7. I am 44 years old, and I have wanted my own bass clarinet since I left high school. After being out of highschool for almost 25 years, my husband got me my very own bass clarinet for Christmas. 🙂❤ I played a little for him, and I managed to remember some of the easier notes. He got me three books (one is of christmas songs) to relearn from. It has been quite a while, and I will be working on relearning and learning some new things too as I did not know EVERY note as it was only 4 years that I played (and I was not in band). So this will be something fun for me to get back into again. 🙂

Subcontraforte!

Just say bassoon guh

Just get a bassoon 😭

Contrabass clarinet sounds like tractor 🚜

There IS a bass oboe, it's called the Bassoon.

I always thought the lowest instrument in the oboe family was the contrabassoon.

big alto sax

That sounds a whole lot like the bassoon.

In high school, Our band always did a clarinet choir for solo and ensemble contests, so I was familiar with most of these. However, the basset horn is a new one for me. What a lovely instrument.

50 years ago it was all "heckelphone this, heckelphone that, heckelphone, heckelphone, heckelphone." Now it seems we're onto something here!

Oh cool, I can repeat my joke from Facebook. This Bois is no longer Haut.

they should have called it the Lowboe. I like it.

It actually sounds great!! I think it should become a standard instrument in orchestras. Oboe is noted for being the “romantic” sound of music so a lower register would give a more masculine effect. Cheers

"Subcontrabass oboe”

Was für ein Geiler Klang….😮