The cimbasso is able to hit those low notes without creating the excessive overtones of the tuba. Shaking the chandeliers is one of the joys of the tuba, but a cimbasso holds more to the fundamentals and combines well with the trombones.
brucekuehn, I wonder about your comment. Since a tuba has a warmer sound, that suggests fewer high harmonics in its timbre, while a trombone's brighter sound suggest more high harmonics. You refer to 'overtones', which seems to mean the same thing as harmonics. I think you may have things backwards.......?
Great video! And what an amazing instrument I've literally never heard of before. You really feel the passion of the musician for his special instrument.
I love the rough sound it gives, as opposed to the smooth, round tones of the tuba. Really adds some power to that bass register. That said, that's not an instrument. It's a frickin' fog horn.
With winds instrument, the lower the register the more air you need, so it is not that he "like" to breathe, it is more like a mandatory thiing, you kow to survive...
Verdi of course didnt invented cimbasso. The name Cimbasso is garbled C basso. Verdis operas in original were performed with 4 valave trombones.... Cimbasso is basicly rotary basstrombone in F.
To expand on this comment: - Verdi was not in the instrument inventing business. He requested a tuba-pitch instrument with the timbre of the trombones, and the cimbasso was produced by instrument makers. - Nobody knows where the name cimbasso came from. It is merely a guess that it might have been a corruption of 'C basso'. - How were Verdi's operas performed with "4 valve trombones"? Or do you meant they were performed by a group of four valve-trombones? The facts are mixed up here. Cimbassos are normally in Eb of F for use in Italian operas, but they also come in CC and BBb, mostly for their frequent use in movie soundtracks. - While most cimbassos use rotary valves (probably because their makers stole the valve sections out of rotary valve tubas), there have been plenty of piston valved cimbassos made (depends on which instrument donated its valve section). Of course, there are 'regularly manufactured' cimbassos as well as the lash-ups. - The modern cimbasso is nothing more than a tuba-pitched valve trombone with a funny shape to make it fit into the tight confines of orchestra pits, while retaining the forward-projecting bell like the trombones is is usually placed next to. - "Cimbasso" has, over time, referred to a number of instruments, not just the modern cimbasso. At least three very different instruments have gone by this name, starting with the instrument NOW called "early cimbasso", which is a late form of upright serpent.
The cimbasso is able to hit those low notes without creating the excessive overtones of the tuba. Shaking the chandeliers is one of the joys of the tuba, but a cimbasso holds more to the fundamentals and combines well with the trombones.
Because the cimbasso has a cylindrical bore as opposed to a tuba's conical bore. It really is more like a valved bass or contrabass trombone.
brucekuehn, I wonder about your comment. Since a tuba has a warmer sound, that suggests fewer high harmonics in its timbre, while a trombone's brighter sound suggest more high harmonics. You refer to 'overtones', which seems to mean the same thing as harmonics. I think you may have things backwards.......?
Great video! And what an amazing instrument I've literally never heard of before. You really feel the passion of the musician for his special instrument.
I love the rough sound it gives, as opposed to the smooth, round tones of the tuba. Really adds some power to that bass register. That said, that's not an instrument. It's a frickin' fog horn.
A glorious fog horn.
This guy really likes to breathe
With winds instrument, the lower the register the more air you need, so it is not that he "like" to breathe, it is more like a mandatory thiing, you kow to survive...
You have to but he also breathes through the instrument, which amplifies it. Mic probably picking it up extra too.
Crazy how it turns flowers to gold.
😂😂😂
A great transplanted musical instrument! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
Wow! I’m gonna return the Ophicleide that I just bought on Ebay and get me one of these instead 😮!
Ophicleides are the real fog horns of the orchestra (when they're used at all - I'm glad they stopped using them!).
Them: "What do you play?"
Me: "I play the Cimbasso."
Them: "What is that?"
Me: "I play the space heater."
It’s the Mukkinese Battle Horn!
Nosregni, well, no, it is not. The "Mukkinese Battle Horn" was a serpent in disguise, quite a different instrument.
its like a tuba trough a fulltone OCD pedal
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Curious...
Alla fine di Nessun Dorma il tenore ha fatto cilecca!!!!
Verdi of course didnt invented cimbasso. The name Cimbasso is garbled C basso. Verdis operas in original were performed with 4 valave trombones.... Cimbasso is basicly rotary basstrombone in F.
To expand on this comment:
- Verdi was not in the instrument inventing business. He requested a tuba-pitch instrument with the timbre of the trombones, and the cimbasso was produced by instrument makers.
- Nobody knows where the name cimbasso came from. It is merely a guess that it might have been a corruption of 'C basso'.
- How were Verdi's operas performed with "4 valve trombones"? Or do you meant they were performed by a group of four valve-trombones? The facts are mixed up here. Cimbassos are normally in Eb of F for use in Italian operas, but they also come in CC and BBb, mostly for their frequent use in movie soundtracks.
- While most cimbassos use rotary valves (probably because their makers stole the valve sections out of rotary valve tubas), there have been plenty of piston valved cimbassos made (depends on which instrument donated its valve section). Of course, there are 'regularly manufactured' cimbassos as well as the lash-ups.
- The modern cimbasso is nothing more than a tuba-pitched valve trombone with a funny shape to make it fit into the tight confines of orchestra pits, while retaining the forward-projecting bell like the trombones is is usually placed next to.
- "Cimbasso" has, over time, referred to a number of instruments, not just the modern cimbasso. At least three very different instruments have gone by this name, starting with the instrument NOW called "early cimbasso", which is a late form of upright serpent.
@@youtuubaI ment group of four trombones of course...
Hmm, looks like there are positions for Americans in Scottish ensembles.
The horror!
@@JonFrumTheFirst hey now
Ghastly thing. I believe it tended to go sharp under concert hall lights.
Its awful
Then you should not look on youtube for the Los Angeles Cimbasso Ensemble. A real thing.