Subcontrabass tuba
Very low pitched instrument in the tuba family / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 423.232 (Valved aerophone sounded by lip vibration) |
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