[HN Gopher] Largest Flute: The Subcontrabass [video]
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       Largest Flute: The Subcontrabass [video]
        
       Author : lisper
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-12-28 07:33 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | paisawalla wrote:
       | Does anyone know about the PVC pipe comment? Is there some common
       | knowledge about how to DIY build bass flutes?
        
         | mmmrtl wrote:
         | Haven't watched yet, but there seems to be a whole world of PVC
         | contrabass flutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA
        
         | cutchin wrote:
         | I don't know much about the flute world, but there's a guy on
         | youtube who's been extending his contrabassoon's range to
         | absurd new lows for years now. Here he is seven years back:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nRRwTnSbM
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         | In the ensuing years he's been manufacturing a proper
         | subcontrabassoon and here's a more recent video of its
         | progress:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQADWh3D8s
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | I was going to suggest the Blue Man Group, but then remembered
         | they are percussive instruments.
        
       | Sosh101 wrote:
       | Interesting instrument, but I dislike this journalistic style. We
       | didn't really get to hear the instrument even.
        
         | elihu wrote:
         | She plays some notes at about 1:10 without the high-pitched
         | flute backing track.
         | 
         | Kind of surprised it has a lot of harmonics. Flutes generally
         | produce something that's at least close to a pure sine wave,
         | but apparently not this one.
        
           | dylan604 wrote:
           | I like how the melodic line is the backing track to you. This
           | instrument would be the backing track of the music.
        
         | DFHippie wrote:
         | Well, a few notes. As she said, it isn't really a solo
         | instrument.
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Similar is traditional Slovak long flute "fujara":
       | https://youtu.be/SuMxWlVYP2o
        
       | mitchbob wrote:
       | Big woodwinds are fun. I got to play a contrabass clarinet in
       | college, where you feel the lowest notes even more than you hear
       | them. The opening of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand
       | [1]--written for Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig's brother--has an
       | amazing solo for contrabassoon [2].
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       | [1]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Ha...
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       | [2] https://youtu.be/Yme2336j81g
        
       | glitcher wrote:
       | Really intrigued by the instrument. Would be nice to see the
       | whole thing on screen for more than 1.5 seconds without jumping
       | to all kinds of zoomed in shots of who knows what. Horrible video
       | editing!
        
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