Subcontrabass tuba
The subcontrabass tuba is a rare instrument of the tuba family built an octave or more below the modern contrabass tuba. Only a very small number of these large novelty instruments have ever been built. Most are pitched in 36’ BBB♭ an octave lower than the BB♭ contrabass tuba, its fundamental B♭-1 corresponding to a practically inaudible 15 Hz.
"Riesenbaß" tuba made by Bohland & Fuchs | |
| Classification | |
|---|---|
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 423.232 (Valved aerophone sounded by lip vibration) |
| Related instruments | |
| Tuba | |
| Musicians | |
| Gerard Hoffnung | |
| Builders | |
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