All the hate towards this instrument is weird to me. It sounds so menacing, so scary and threatening that it invokes feelings of fright. This instrument truly is an awesome creation, as is any instrument that can invoke such strong feelings.
Ya it’s kinda dumb honestly. Looks like it belongs in a miniature golf course. And the sounds really isn’t good either. Just kinda a silly thing honestly
@@barronweir123 I mean if you just look at a demonstration of how low it can go, yes it is silly. But if you look at it used in an actual orchestra (the only one who has it is the Montreal Symphony Orchestra) it's pretty much an orchestral string subwoofer, which is great in my opinion.
Beautiful. I just love that deep throaty voice! (and I do mean the octobass' voice...) As a keyboard player I have various instruments that can go this low in range, but there's not much that can authentically replicate the sound of a genuine bowed instrument. I also play cello, and there's a huge variety of nuances obtainable by just moving or tilting your bow slightly.
I find it interesting that its played with sort of mega-German bow. I always imagined that it would be played with a bow that more or less resembled a two person crosscut saw.
Thanks for the notice about the low notes. I'm trying out some thing to see if I can give doctors relevant/reference to my experiences. Some of this is relatable to my GI and other symptoms. Muscle spasms and discoordination of usually timed muscle activity. Sorry if it doesn't make sense but your upload is very helpful! Thank you from a music lover. ♡
Some double basses can reach the C or the B thanks to an additional string (a third/fourth lower than the standard E). Octobass lowest note is an octave lower than these.
This is probably the best video demonstrating the range of this instrument. Other videos are in concert with other instruments which drown out the octobass, at least when listening on computer speakers.
If you are wondering how it's played, watch the video. There is no second player, there are keys on the side. The melody he plays is the Dies irae, a Gregorian chant sequence - "Day of Wrath." He also plays the very lowest note, a 16 hz C, below the range of most human hearing. The tone sounds like it's shuddering because you're not actually hearing the fundamental, you're hearing the overtones and the resultant cannot be formed adequately by the human ear. Elephants' ears can hear the pitch.
an octave below the low C on cello would be the low C on an extended (or 5 string) bass; this octobass is 2 octaves below a cello & 1 octave below a double bass....
It is certainly the Dies Irae theme (which also is used in the Fantastique) and when thinking about Berlioz who asked for its design it would not be strange. However, the octobass does not appear in the score of the Fantastique.
Hi, my name is Kevin Mannikko and I play the octobass in my elemetary school orchestra. My teacher told me to play a smaller intrument, but i said NOOOOOOOO!!!! I don't need to use the levers becuase I'm like 10 ft. 3in. tall. I'm the tallest elementary schooler ever. I'm also a big fan of Teapots and Macaroni and Cheese!!!
I imagine if the sound-post falls over, it needs wedging back up with a crow-bar. I never thought I'd ever see one of these - did Berlioz ever use one in his orchestra?
I guess the next step up (or down 😜) would be to take a wooden bungalow, and attach strings to the top. Never mind using horse hair for a bow, but just do as Darth Vader told Luke: "Use the Horse!"
David Gonzales , he's holding the bow correctly, if you are equating it wid the violin bow hold then you are gravely mistakened, the bow is too heavy and big to be held in that way.
@Tobbe999999999999999 you have to play with some thing on the side of the octobass ( a little above yr haedà), when you push some of the bars down, something and something fix automatic., that there comes something like (automatic) capo like on a guitar.. (: and that supposed to be yr finger i get. And damn why am i telling u this :D sorry about my english:)
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All the hate towards this instrument is weird to me. It sounds so menacing, so scary and threatening that it invokes feelings of fright. This instrument truly is an awesome creation, as is any instrument that can invoke such strong feelings.
You should play it lol if u can I have no idea if there even in music stored
Ya it’s kinda dumb honestly. Looks like it belongs in a miniature golf course. And the sounds really isn’t good either. Just kinda a silly thing honestly
i agree. some people just don't appreciate more esoteric sounds in music.
@@barronweir123 I mean if you just look at a demonstration of how low it can go, yes it is silly. But if you look at it used in an actual orchestra (the only one who has it is the Montreal Symphony Orchestra) it's pretty much an orchestral string subwoofer, which is great in my opinion.
@@--027 you can like it. I think it's dumb. Am I allowed to think that?
it's like playing a wooden cabinet with strings on it
Ocotobass instruments were played by giants long ago...
Man, look at that string vibrations when he does that low C. Insane!
"This thing is so big... You can't finger it." Amazing just amazing.
This is like some sunn o))) stuff right here.
This is an awesome instrument. Exceptionally well made. It sounds like it is supposed to sound.
Bb0,F0,C0?
*First sees the instrument..... Jaw drops* WOW never seen that before!
WOW, portable XD
Beautiful. I just love that deep throaty voice! (and I do mean the octobass' voice...)
As a keyboard player I have various instruments that can go this low in range, but there's not much that can authentically replicate the sound of a genuine bowed instrument.
I also play cello, and there's a huge variety of nuances obtainable by just moving or tilting your bow slightly.
Charles Gounod wrote for it in his St. Cecilia Mass. It is in the Benedictus and Agnus Dei movements. (That is what brought me to this Video).
Sounds like the depths of hell.
Damn, this is so amazing. Every basshead/dubstep listener should listen to this, haha.
I find it interesting that its played with sort of mega-German bow. I always imagined that it would be played with a bow that more or less resembled a two person crosscut saw.
SunnO))) needs one of these.
Thanks for the notice about the low notes. I'm trying out some thing to see if I can give doctors relevant/reference to my experiences. Some of this is relatable to my GI and other symptoms. Muscle spasms and discoordination of usually timed muscle activity. Sorry if it doesn't make sense but your upload is very helpful! Thank you from a music lover. ♡
turn it on its side.....chellooooo. base!
BA_300_AAC as a fellow school of Rock fan I'm sorry about the dark times Nickelodeon is taking us through
*cello
Music and human anatomy, what a great demonstration.
i would hate to play one of these if i lived in a studio apartmnt
The instrument would BE your studio apartment!
imagine apocalyptica playing this instrument
Some double basses can reach the C or the B thanks to an additional string (a third/fourth lower than the standard E). Octobass lowest note is an octave lower than these.
I want to shake the hand of whoever conceived of this instrument
Incrível. Eu nunca vira um Octabaixo antes! Nem sabia que existe esse instrumento...
Love the way he just starts blasting out the Dies Irae...
ɢօɖ ċaռ ʊsɛ tɦɨs as a ʋɨօʟɨռ :3
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my teacher from my double bass lessons, is making also a octobass. and it's insane! its so awesome but also such a creep noise (:
This is probably the best video demonstrating the range of this instrument. Other videos are in concert with other instruments which drown out the octobass, at least when listening on computer speakers.
Djent, the early days
+Théo Beauval but the question remains...
But does it Djent???
If you are wondering how it's played, watch the video. There is no second player, there are keys on the side. The melody he plays is the Dies irae, a Gregorian chant sequence - "Day of Wrath." He also plays the very lowest note, a 16 hz C, below the range of most human hearing. The tone sounds like it's shuddering because you're not actually hearing the fundamental, you're hearing the overtones and the resultant cannot be formed adequately by the human ear. Elephants' ears can hear the pitch.
an octave below the low C on cello would be the low C on an extended (or 5 string) bass; this octobass is 2 octaves below a cello & 1 octave below a double bass....
One doesn't create an obelisk like this for its practicality, rather it is constructed to defy limitation!!!
god damn that huge. Glad VH1's documentary called "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" told me about this
Intro to "the shining"! Awesome.
Its lowest note is C, so you could say that it is in drop C (from a certain perspective). It's tuned C0 G0 C1.
the way the guy tunes it is Baller.
Useful for communicating with dolphins and elephants?
Very amusing thumbs up.
It is certainly the Dies Irae theme (which also is used in the Fantastique) and when thinking about Berlioz who asked for its design it would not be strange. However, the octobass does not appear in the score of the Fantastique.
OHMYGOODNESSGRACIOUSME
I presume that the quality was much better in person, then?
i wonder how it feels when u touch it when the string is vibrating
I like that he starts out by playing the "Dies Irae" from the Requiem Mass...
he was using the harmonics to tune and the camera woman said he was tuning by feeling the vibrations lmao.
that must be like sawing through petrified wood to play
The Dies Irae! Love it!
Do they need those kind of instruments in music today? LOL I wonder how difficult it is to pick it up or take it anywhere!!!
You can't pick it up.
Do you know how much that thing weighs?
I have enough trouble picking up a modern double bass.
I'm really a musical instruments expert, but I have never seen a guitar this big!!! :-)
Figures, the two things that I was thinking were the two top comments.
This guy should do a duet with the contrabass saxophone kid.
nice....the Dies Irae!!!! & well played indeed
i wonder what Luthier was thinking when he was making this huge intrument!
@Emceetem That would be sweet, we just need to bring him back to life...... R.I.P.
THAT BASS!
Вот бы его в живую послушать! Камера такие низкие звуки не передаёт.
Даже от видео мурашки, не от каждого тяжёлого метала бывают...
He seems to be playing the theme of Liszt's "totentanz" :)
if they'd really use that octobass it might be even scarier :p
How much does this thing cost? I must have one. I play bass, but none this size.
@FilmComposeRaHoppe i think its because it can actually be played this looks more like a novelty
Hi, my name is Kevin Mannikko and I play the octobass in my elemetary school orchestra. My teacher told me to play a smaller intrument, but i said NOOOOOOOO!!!! I don't need to use the levers becuase I'm like 10 ft. 3in. tall. I'm the tallest elementary schooler ever. I'm also a big fan of Teapots and Macaroni and Cheese!!!
what if the string broke while he is tuning? ouch!!
Octobasses are not in serial production because, you imagine, it is too large for theatres and jazz bands. It can cost as much us 20000 dollars
I imagine if the sound-post falls over, it needs wedging back up with a crow-bar. I never thought I'd ever see one of these - did Berlioz ever use one in his orchestra?
this is amazing
Seems like a cool job
I would love to hear/see you play "Jaws"
Great music)
i wonder how big the case is for that
He is playing "Dies Irae", a medieval sequencia.
I guess the next step up (or down 😜) would be to take a wooden bungalow, and attach strings to the top.
Never mind using horse hair for a bow, but just do as Darth Vader told Luke:
"Use the Horse!"
was this in phoenix? I remember seeing this.
@glennrickard323576 as he said, you only hear the overtones. what's the point in 8 hz notes? :D is it so that whales can enjoy music too? :D
i wonder how many people are needed for that thing?
i wander how much it's going to cost
The Shining!
Really doomsday sound: The celestial demoniac sound!!!!! Every avant garde music would like to have one in his collection!!!!!
shining theme !
I wanna hear Paganini's 24th Caprice on that thing. :)
i would be so scared of one of those strings popping. they could do some serious damage
he is playing it, not on a conventional way of other instruments, but he is playing it...
How do you carry it? Do what mechanism?
thats the sound when you enter in a cave in minecraft
it sounds like "the Bloop"😨
Lmao
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***** using what?
This was a violin for the giants long ago. Now it’s an octobass for humans.
@SgtPenguin117 i wonder if there's a part for that instrument in the symph. fantastique... he sure liked to use unconventional instruments!
@veprecose Is that Symphonie fantastique that he's playing at the beginning? :D
sounded like the intro music from the 1980 movie The Shining to me.
I never saw this and just happened upon it now. Yes, it is. To both comments.
How the hell do you get that thing to a gig?
Chuck Norris´ toy violin
@Uchihaclan28 what's the brown note?
Holy crap, I want to smack that bow out of that guide's hand and tell him to hold it correctly.
not the over tones but a C pitch on a cello just an octave or 2 lower
Whoa, that some unholy low tuning right there.
Oh, so that's what my neighbor was doing, I thought he was drilling the walls all day long!
Wagner use this in a lot of songs... and its really really powerfull
David Gonzales , he's holding the bow correctly, if you are equating it wid the violin bow hold then you are gravely mistakened, the bow is too heavy and big to be held in that way.
Is that the theme from Totentanz?
Can you play the instruments at the museum
Egriff123 No, he worked for the museum and it's a demo they put on.
@Uchihaclan28 Brown note ?
Probably the best audio you will ever find of this bass on TH-cam. Where did you get your microphone btw?
JettFox Literally the built in on my camera. The acoustics are just right in that room.
veprecose huh. That's pretty cool. I watched other videos of it at the same exact place, and it sounded terrible
hahaha that low note sounds like a motorcycle in this video xD
@Suetekh27 Yes, I think traditionally that's how it's played. Just because it's kind of awkward to do both.
Octobase, what do you play?
I PLAY THE RUMBLE!
And we are just singing along with the song he is playing.
@Tobbe999999999999999
you have to play with some thing on the side of the octobass ( a little above yr haedà), when you push some of the bars down, something and something fix automatic., that there comes something like (automatic) capo like on a guitar.. (: and that supposed to be yr finger i get. And damn why am i telling u this :D sorry about my english:)