Introducing Beethoven's Contrabassoon
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What is this big beast of the orchestra, and where did it come from?
David Chatterton introduces the contrabassoon as heard in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Haydn's Creation.
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I never knew Beethoven composed the construction site in front of my window
😂
I can't stop laughing at this while watching the video!
At first I didn't get it but then, while I was reading again, the sound at 5:12 started.
I'm fucking dying to this comment
Didn't mean to interrupt you but he was deaf..
The classical is generally much softer and has some really nice pure notes
*continues to play a ship horn*
LMAO
Literally gave me a laughing fit.
Baroqueeeee
Wait for it at 58 seconds:
th-cam.com/video/JFhqe-tdARg/w-d-xo.html
😆
This is the exact tone that every heavy metal bass guitar player is looking for.
I’d like to see it do Djent
@@kishascape oh you know this thing djents
You'd need some big lungs!
😂
Mosh hard 🤘
My husband plays this instrument every morning. I just can't figure out where he keeps it.
Let him keep it
Hahaha 😂
In the WATER CLOSET of course.
@Praise No-thing yeah lol
@@timothyhays1817 yeah. Good one😂
"The classical is generally much softer, and has some really nice, pure notes." BRAAAAAAAP, BWREEEEEEEP
I dont know why but I had to laugh so hard at your comment. Take that thumbs up.
It truly sounds like wet fart.
@@blizzbee 😂
TEARS
lol
IF you hate your neighbours, this is a perfect instument to practice at 3am.
I was learning to play the bag-pipes but the banging on the wall was so loud could not hear myself practice. Neighbours can be so selfish.
@@malcolmabram2957 Jesus Christ 😂😂😂
nah...im a percussionist...BRING ON THE TIMPANI!!!
bwahahaha
Blast a tuba
"I want a foghorn with a double-reed"
~Beethoven
With such low notes, you realize that pitch is really just a frequency. Impressive.
Pitches, love frequency.
@@schrodingersgat4344 Comma, splice.
I wonder if this can be used to fine tune the perfect BPM to play a song based on the key of the song
@@gatergates8813 it sure can
Thats a note every one will remember. * starts an air compressor *
LMAO!!!
Spot on. Flashbacks to construction ensued.
just got to this part in the video, saw your comment early on and thought "couldn't be that bad". nope, absolutely spot on analogy.
My sister literally asked why im listening to the jackhammers.
Literally
"Beethoven himself may have heard it"
The instrument so loud a deaf man could hear it.
I think he meant by vibrations
Beethoven wasn't always deaf
Dan Trebune boomer
Vibrations and all... I could see that happening.
@Dan Trebune "Y'all" has been a Southern US word meaning to clarify the plurality of the word "you" for nearly 200 years.
Beethoven: "I am bored of these instruments, make me something that resonates rock to dust while being hilarious to look at and hear"
"The classical is generally much softer, and has some really nice, pure notes."
**Starts up lawnmower**
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should"
music science in a nutshell
LOLOLOL Ian Malcolm
"Theremins. Theremins are on the verge of extinction. If I were to create some theremins for this orchestra, you wouldn't have anything to say."
HILARIOUS!!!!
If you’re the kind of person who nearly faints blowing up balloons, this is not the instrument for you.
🤣
Isnt that allowed for any bassoon?
Stormy Daniels is an expert at it apparently.
The oboe isn't either XD
Neither is the tuba or trombone
I call this next composition 'Ship Arriving in Harbour'.
I laughed way too hard at this
4:36 - When you need to snipe people with the brown note from 10 miles away
The range of pitch is from 'taco fart' down to 'engine noise in cabin'.
😂🤣😂🤣
This comment had me laughing so hard I literally had tears coming out of my eyes.
south of your border, amigo
"Beethoven himself may well have heard it." Well, that explains why he went deaf ...
J Cortese
Lucky bastard!
As a bassoonist. This thing is vile!
Interesting but yuk!
@@rhero1 I love it
Ludwig has congenital syphilis which can cause deafness. Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend and Lars Ulrich has never had a bassoon player in their Combo band yet those three had suffered tinnitus
I'm not sure being deaf would prevent you from hearing this thing
This is soo disrespectful but also Very funny 😂
If this intimidating-looking instrument would be used as a weapon of mass destruction, it would be called a bassooka.
XD
hahahaa, nice
im stealing this
There's actually an instrument called bazooka, the rocket launcher "bazooka" got his name because it looked like the instrument bazooka
Contrabazooka.
1:55 Ah yes, the opening movement from Beethoven's "Symphony for Oil-tankers." I know it well!
😂
Can you imagine a trio for this, the sub contrabass saxophone, and the octobass? The vibrations would be insane!
Someone needs to make this a reality!
The vibrations would clash :(
Hopefully no brown notes
and the contrabass clarinet
Too dangerous, a portal straight to hell could be opened up.
When your game crashes 5:12
That is true
Thats a really frustrating sound
AAAGHH
is that a "note".... I thought is was a grinding clutch.
Indeed 😂😂😂😂
Especially for Bethoven, this instrument was... "unheard of" at the time.
1800's: Has bassoons
Beethoven and Haydn: _We need to go deeper_
"You're gonna need a *bigger bassoon*!"
Beethoven: What this piece so desperately needs is the sound of a rhinoceros farting, but however am I to get him to do it in time with the music?
Sir Simon Contrabassoon: A moment of your time, please, good sir?
Ilznidiotic I can’t even listen to the rest of what’s going on in the video because this is too damn funny XD
I'm glad you don't have a brain
Ronnie Woods Bellmont Sound's Ah quit being a party pooper
LMAOOO
How about 'Sir Simon Contra'
Since bassoon already existed
My grandfather played this instrument. His was a Mollenhauer built in the 1930s. He played for Arturo Toscinini & Arther Fiedler among others. You can see him playing saxophone behind Al Jolson in the caberet scene of "The Jazz Singer" made in 1927. He played in the Vitaphone orchestra.
Fantastic legacy!
Your grandfather was built in the 30's ?
😂 Nice story, thanks for sharing.
WOW!
Wow ~ so interesting! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
So cool!!
This comment thread is priceless. You folks got me laughing first thing in the morning!
He should play the “ smoke on the water” riff on it , would sound really cool
I thought he was for a moment there. 1:32
a fire in disguise
Yeah, and Frank Zappa always thought the contrabassoon was the most difficult instrument to play.
@@huskydogg7536I’ve got two chickens to paralyze, pack your bags we leave tonight…lol.
@@tixximmi1 Until some stupid with a flare gun...
Looks like an anti aircraft weapon😂
Anti Neighbo weapon
sounds like one too
It's first AM and I'm laughing my ass off at this comment. Thank you
I’m seeing it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Projector
ahha dude .. so true lol
This mad lad had a distorted 808 in the 16th century
LMAO the absolute madman.
Bl00dy h3ll m8
Beethoven going low key HARD
What's that, a gear joke? Are you talking about the 808 chip, like in a Tube Screamer or do you mean the Roland drum machine?
@@PaulTheSkeptic drum machine
Production team: Which is the widest angle lens we got?? He's playing a giraffe bone.
Giraffe boner you mean.
Yes, this is genuinely how the conversation went
"The contrabassoon has only one rival in an orchestra, and that's the smashing of hardened concrete with a pneumatic drill next to your ear".
"Some really nice "pure notes..."
I call this one...
"Uncle on the toilet"
Lmao
Hahahaha
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm laughing so hard I can't get the mouse over the thumbs up to click it
Usually when I say I laughed at something on the internet, I simply found it amusing, but my expression doesn't change. This comment was not one of those times.
"this really is one note which everyone can remember from the piece"
*jackhammer begins drilling into cement*
No wonder Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was so epic. It had instruments I've never even heard of before. 😂
He hadn't , either.
oh no
Great sound on the low notes, which I prefer to the modern one!
If you imagine him as a very small man playing a regular wind instrument it really elevates the video
Why did you do this to my brain…
"How's that harmonica solo coming along, Plankton?"
"It's tremendous! Wanna see?"
I very much enjoyed this video and learning about this instrument. However, I REALLY have enjoyed the comments much much more....
Hahaha!!! Same here...this comment section made me laugh so much.
@Cat indeed! a much needed chuckle for times such as these
A cat after my own heart! 😂
@@Warlanda fr
You and me both buddy, I've got tears here, lol, jesus the comments 😂
It's so low I can almost count the individual vibrations.
Zoshi The Neely Frequency
WHOA NEELY!!
Same. I don't know how I feel about it
Zoshi I love it....😍😍😍😍.
About 8 cycles per second (I counted them!)
My man is playing the telephone pole.
People: why is your left arm so huge?
Mr. David Chatterton: I hold THIS.
4:11
So you’re controlling the reed...
**Angry barn owl shrieking**
In a different way to the modern one which is...
**Screeching baby with a cold**
It feels like a meme video with dubbed sounds
Perfect 😂
Today I Learned: A contrabassoon looks like a Final Fantasy weapon.
@Gus W looks more like a weapon haha
Just imagine if that huge thing fell on someone's head..
Pedro Santos yIkEs
Monster Hunter anyone?
*Is
Can you imagine the experience of your breathe bringing to life music from a 211 year old instrument. Marvelous
it should have red lights. you know, for the airplanes
:)))))))))))
Seem this comment already in the video about the teorba
It may be a coincidence that Alfried Krupp toured the Beethoven museum only 6 months before the 88 MM Flak cannon was designed. Then again...
My late Dad played bassoon in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during the 1950s - 60s. I recall one day he brought a contra-bassoon home to practice for an upcoming performance of the Fifth. Besides Beethoven, Dad produced eructations of flatulence from the beast, to the great amusement of his kids ( but not, as I recall, their Mom!)
David Chatterton: devotes his life to mastering a difficult, beautiful instrument with a rich history.
TH-cam comments: _I'm about to end this man's whole career_
I played the Bassoon in Highschool. We were told to choose our instruments, I picked the Bassoon because it looked so strange. Great instrument.
I congratulate him on somehow managing to keep a straight face (and let's not forget that the first composer to use one in a symphony was stone deaf at the time).
I forgot which composer it was, but he apparently hated it when people fell asleep in his concerts, so he wrote a piece that was very quiet, but had a sudden unexpected snare drum beat in the middle
@@TheAntiChrysler Haydn's Surprise Symphony. th-cam.com/video/VOLy6JxEDLw/w-d-xo.html
@@TheAntiChrysler Metallica - St. Anger
@@TheAntiChrysler Possibly Haydn with his "Surprise" Symphony...
@@Mazut0 dirty
It sounds like a fart reverberating off an orange plastic classroom chair.
Which is why I say that sometimes the brass section sound like a bunch of well tuned farts
While playing the low Bb on the contrabassoon, I farted. Heard no difference
Spisific
As a musician, it's kinda insulting when an instrument is compared to farts. No matter what instrument it is.
Beat T-Series With One Video Challenge I'm a musician as well, and idc. Especially cuz the lowest register on the contrabassoon really does resemble them.
I made the mistake of reading the comments while watching the video... I can't hear the dude talking over how loud I'm laughing... thanks everyone 😂
The lungs one must need to play an instrument like that.
It's like a precision didgeridoo.
Well no the didge is something else specialy the way to play it
The didgeridoo has a much nicer sound in my opinion, along with a much broader range of sounds, especially when played by someone with the talent for it.
Well i do play the didge
@@zappzapp1350 Lovely! Was it hard for you to learn the circular breatihng?
Well the hard thing is to stay with it and you have to realy want to play this. It took me 9 month to learn the circulation, but only then the instrument teaches you how it want to be played.
3:00
"...has really nice pure notes"
*10 seconds of brown note*
Rofl! 😂🤣😂🤣
This is the TH-cam content I didn't know I needed.
I love the illustration of the “terrible” notes. Non wind players won’t know what this means, but every bassoonist, particularly those who also have to do contra, understand!!
Sounds like a Honda civic with a loud subwoofer, from the outside.
It legit does. Like, when you can tell the only sound deadening the dude did was stuffing socks and rags behind plastic panels to hold down the rattle.
How specific do you need to be to include the car, does it affect the subwoofer?
Hahah fuck yeah
Beethoven: “I do say, I’ve always wanted an instrument of flatulence.”
David: “Say no more”
Seems more like a Mozart thing to say, but here we are.
@@morganrobinson8042 Mozart, the genius who brought the world "Leck mich im Arsch" (Lick my ass/lick me in the ass) in B-flat major. :)
PDQ Bach would have just used a whoopee cushion.
I joined my first kickstarter a year ago to produce a Fart Pedal for the guitar, although I saw a harpist use it on her channel.
@@theevermind all due respect to PDQ Bach, who I love, but he's become the Gallagher of art music humor. He needs to reference djent to reach today's audience. I'll give him a call. ☎️📞
I had water stuck in my ear for weeks, and this video really helped thank you!
2:30 wow, I never noticed that the bell is chopped off in the masking process.
which bell?
Валерий Никитюк on the modern instrument, to the right. Look at it at 2:30 then compare it to 2:50
Bassoon inventor: "Damn! My duck call is broken! I hate to throw it away though....."
man, that clacking sound along with the fundamental..... that is scary! 5:15 horror soundtrack... done. haha
you are everywhere c:
@@explosionmental2781 apparently! Maybe I AM Santa Claus. ?
Sounds like my furnace went out lol
I would not expect you to be interested in classical instruments and music haha
Air pressure washer
"Symphony for Oil-tankers" was my personal favorite down here in the comment section. Good one Magnus.
Nobody:
Me after eating 2 chipotle burritos in the span of 10 minutes: 5:13
I'm left with a feeling that this could very well be a prank and we'd all be too embarrassed to ask...
You'll be glad to hear it's very much real.
It looks like a bastard child of mortar and anti-tank rifle...
@Gus W just stop. Your spamming on each joke comment. Just stop, Take a joke, and be a bit more enlightened.
@Gus W What a baby
@Gus W ok
"Austrian marching bands on the continent that needed a 16' sound..." I've got to see those Austrian marching bands.
Unfortunately we got rid of them nowadays. We are much less feared now.
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I really didn't know about this instrument, so thank you for introducing it in this video. The history of instruments is really intriquing and also gives a nice additional insight into Beethoven's 5th. It must be inspiring for a composer to have a sound like this at his disposal, really enhancing the possibilities.
5:06 when your neighbors is drilling
My old band friends always joked that bassoons were just bazookas you could play. But that things a freaking Howitzer.
I wonder if you could weaponise a bassoon... obviously itll have to be metal to withstand the blast but itll probably make an effective mortar
Made from leftover patterns from Krupp Arms.
4:35 wait, did this thing get LONGER?
YASSS 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The instrument got hot and started to stretch.
It saw the female modern contrabassoon
@Akra Seil You win 👍
That's what she said...
*_Amazing sound, so rich and warm..._*
First time seeing or hearing a Contra-Bassoon. I think that is the tallest instrument I have seen. The new version with folded main airway really makes it more compact. Some will prefer old over new. Even with 2 1/2 octave range, the pitches are such that most people, myself included will listen with a sense of awe.
somehow over the years bassoon sound has become one of my favourites and your show is spectacular
"the classical is generally much softer and has some really soft pure notes."
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrum brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrum
aka anti tank bassoon
I laughed so hard on this
samuel willette Fucking hell, brass and woodwinds are the ranged weaponry of the orchestra. This thing would be a damn railgun.
Lmfao
Tornait A mortar lol
Bassonka
It’s the oversized anime sword of instruments
Bassoon is easily the most difficult instrument I've ever tried to play.
4:13 I can't imagine testing a contrabassoon reed by itself and deciding it doesn't sound right, when this is the standard you're aiming for.
Well, this is normally an oboist thing for everyday.
Oboe reeds have a recognizable pitch they're supposed to produce, right? These contrabassoon reeds, seemingly not so much.
Alex Kindel well, before playing oboe I probably did not know how should it sounds
Alex Kindel you have to imagine it with the other instruments of the orchestra, it's obviously not a solo instrument.
I'm talking about the sound of the reed when it's not attached to the instrument, not the sound of the instrument as a whole. The instrument sounds fine. For oboes, my understanding is that you can tell to some degree whether a reed is any good depending on how it sounds when played in isolation.
Is it me or does it grow during the video? It looks much longer in the end. Maybe it's happy to see us?
I think it grows. Look at 0:15 and 4:40 for example.
@@holtaf6026 Good point holtaf, I think he switched a part or modified the Basoon. Can not deny it changed.
The one at the end has an extension on the end that allows it to go lower than what you see in the rest of the video. The note he plays from the Creation is a low B flat, a whole step lower than he could play earlier in the video
The modern contrabasson has the same extension option, but it brings the bell to the floor!
+Njald... what wouldn't grow if you keep blowing it... 😊
5:06 will be my new ringtone ^^
I don't care who you are, you can't just stroll by this and ignore it, like I wanted to at first. Great performance, great sound! I was so sad when it was all over!
Beethoven's love of flatulence has finally been exposed.
Mozart lived poop jokes too I believe
@@lol... I mean, Mozart composed a piece called "Leck mich im Arsch" ("Lick me in the ass")
This thing can almost definitely hit the brown note.
I laughed entirely too hard at this.
Hits its own brown note constantly, from the sound of it.
In the heads of 114 others as well, apparently.
You enjoy getting worked up over light-hearted banter?
No, you really are getting mad over a light joke, calm down.
Beethoven: I hath inventeth a new instrument. Alloweth me to play it.
The audience: what are thee - deafeth?
Thank you for featuring this unique instrument. More, please.
And thus Dubstep was birthed by our forefathers 🤔
Exactly!
forefarters* give the sound of that thing
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This isn’t dubstep lol. I know it’s a joke and a lot of classical musicians will hate me, but dubstep is way more complex than the sound of a bassoon.
@@cranque__7737 yes, they birthed out the bass sound and bOom dats you dubstep of the day and it had years to become what you know today
Love the sound of your instrument. As a clarinetist, I can appreciate the work and difficulty in making your reeds and playing that classic instrument. Thanks for the great sample of it's range and playing a short clip from Beethoven's work.
You lie. No way you like that sound.
I've had a classical instrument attached to my backside this whole time?
Oh my god. cracked me up
Fabulous. I love this kind of lecture and presentation. Fascinating
This literally sounds like my phone vibrating when I put it in silent
best comment
Gotta love the sound of that beast coming through a half inch iPhone speaker.
i'm surprised your iphone survived it.
I love the sound of very old Woodwind instruments and this was a fascinating video.
It would have been interesting to hear the sound of the modern Bassoon along side the original design though.
-thanks so much for putting it up for us!
4:11 And that's how he hunts ducks LOL
First time I heard a contrabasson was when I was playing double bass in an orchestra playing Brahms. I fell in love with it. It looks the like pipes in the cellar of an old house. :D
When I hear this instrument, the first thing that comes to mind definitely isn't "soft" or "nice, *pure* notes"
i like how all the really old instruments are really big... "there were giants in those days"
So glad to have seen this. Just imagine practicing this gizmo for hours a day...
What a lovely warm sound! It's comforting, and I can imagine it playing in consort with others of its kin. A nice, reedy range.
Lies.
The sound is so vibrating that it makes my phone shake...
The long old one is much more epic looking!
How wonderful. Such an eccentric, esoteric fascination. The sounds are astonishing. The idea of this being part of a marching band presents all kinds of possibilities for comedy episodes.