Introducing Beethoven's Contrabassoon
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Published 2018-08-15
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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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All Comments (21)
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I never knew Beethoven composed the construction site in front of my window
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The classical is generally much softer and has some really nice pure notes continues to play a ship horn
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This is the exact tone that every heavy metal bass guitar player is looking for.
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My husband plays this instrument every morning. I just can't figure out where he keeps it.
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"The classical is generally much softer, and has some really nice, pure notes." BRAAAAAAAP, BWREEEEEEEP
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IF you hate your neighbours, this is a perfect instument to practice at 3am.
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"I want a foghorn with a double-reed" ~Beethoven
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With such low notes, you realize that pitch is really just a frequency. Impressive.
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Thats a note every one will remember. * starts an air compressor *
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"Beethoven himself may have heard it" The instrument so loud a deaf man could hear it.
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I call this next composition 'Ship Arriving in Harbour'.
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1:55 Ah yes, the opening movement from Beethoven's "Symphony for Oil-tankers." I know it well!
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The range of pitch is from 'taco fart' down to 'engine noise in cabin'.
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should"
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4:36 - When you need to snipe people with the brown note from 10 miles away
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If this intimidating-looking instrument would be used as a weapon of mass destruction, it would be called a bassooka.
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Looks like an anti aircraft weapon😂
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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.
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"The classical is generally much softer, and has some really nice, pure notes." *Starts up lawnmower*
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Beethoven: "I am bored of these instruments, make me something that resonates rock to dust while being hilarious to look at and hear"
