10pm: I'm going to get to sleep early tonight 3am: Introducing the Baroque Contrabassoon
@nunziomeatballs4 жыл бұрын
Charlie Smyth it’s 3am for me
@Potapes4 жыл бұрын
It is only 2am. But I wen to sleep in 8pm :D
@lucyf90344 жыл бұрын
I went to sleep 8pm and it's 2am now.
@lylecohen16384 жыл бұрын
ok it's 2:47 AM I didn't need this callout
@mr.beethovenmahlerligeti67004 жыл бұрын
3:17 am
@bearbrotha4 жыл бұрын
I love how it's so huge you can't get it all in focus.
@christopherherrmann9214 жыл бұрын
@Anil Löeb :-D
@praveenb90484 жыл бұрын
Proudly Presenting... *The Bassooka*
@bluboi1553 жыл бұрын
People call my normal bassoon a basooka in class
@7thWardCreole3 жыл бұрын
I laughed waaaay too hard at bassooka 🤣
@erickleefeld48834 жыл бұрын
The concert foghorn.
@williammitchell1864 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like me every morning 😂
@GrangerGangster4 жыл бұрын
I have to hand it to you guys. It’s not too often that I am in utter amazement, but when he said that this was THE contrabassoon that premiered Music for the Royal Fireworks, my jaw hit the floor. That is truly amazing that it’s survived all these centuries and is still being played!
@utecastronoova8634 жыл бұрын
He misspoke...it was the Royal Fartworks. Centuries worth of bad gas. Its still in mint condition because no one wanted to use it.
@myboy_4 жыл бұрын
@@utecastronoova863 you're a good man
@7thWardCreole3 жыл бұрын
I shudder to think of the insurance payments on it!
@katrinablackwell51743 жыл бұрын
ROYAL FARTWORKS??? OMG lol lol lol
@mr.s1961 Жыл бұрын
@John Connors then you'd REALLY be surprised how many centuries all artifacts the queen stole from Africa have lasted and still locked up in Buckingham palace as well as British Museums.
@priscillapenelopepicklenos6303 Жыл бұрын
One of my ancestors, named Candido Passavanti, was actually the contrabassoonist who played in Beethoven’s orchestra. It never occurred to me to wonder before, but now I’m curious to know if his instrument has survived and is perhaps still being played.
@danielponder690Ай бұрын
It may have been a Grenser ca 1800, not sure what's out there that survive, but many of us play Grenser copies and I know the owner of an original Grenser
@kateshungi89454 жыл бұрын
Assert dominance
@richardc89704 жыл бұрын
After their concert performances, the Baroque Contrabassoon was also very useful for jousting.
@palette_15634 жыл бұрын
Imagine being in a high school music class and having to take that thing home on the bus with you, lol
@lsb26234 жыл бұрын
Sick bong, dude.
@proudsnowtiger4 жыл бұрын
"Say hello to my little friend" "You could bring down a 747 with that" "Of course it'll fit into the overhead locker" "Unparalleled effect, but a devil to get lit" but mostly "PAAAAARRRRRRPPPP!" A magnificent device. How on earth does one's life path lead to blowing into one of those for money?
@kingjbone14 жыл бұрын
@Tweedlebean this!
@DieFlabbergast4 жыл бұрын
I think we can take it for granted that he usually plays an ordinary, Earthling-sized bassoon. This is for special occasions.
@proudsnowtiger4 жыл бұрын
@@DieFlabbergast Well, yes. There can't be that many pieces scored for such a monster! Incidentally, try Googling "Logical Bassoon" for further bassoonery tomfoolery. Radio 3 even had a "Towards A More Logical Bassoon" programme, once upon a time...
@whs1pmjazz4 жыл бұрын
He's right, it really is a pitchy instrument. Must have been extremely tough to play, considering the best of the best in terms of modern players is struggling to keep the higher notes in tune
@cfrandre83194 жыл бұрын
Patrick Reilly Not to mention, imagine its response/changes with humidity fluctuations in UK
@whs1pmjazz4 жыл бұрын
@@cfrandre8319 let's not even imagine that
@VaughanMcAlleyАй бұрын
There’s one baroque contrabassoon in Australia which gets shuttled back and forth between Sydney and Melbourne. The guy who usually plays it impresses me every single time with his intonation and agility. Maybe the difference is that this instrument was made more recently than Handel’s time…
@whiteeyedsh4rk6974 жыл бұрын
0:00 when your cellphone is muted and you get a message
@michaelchen86434 жыл бұрын
The residence and vibration sound like controlled flatulence 😆
@CannibalSodom2 жыл бұрын
I was wondering what this instrument was after seeing it on the credits of The Seer by Swans. I was not disappointed. This instrument fits that album perfectly.
@weirdshibainu4 жыл бұрын
That's a big bong
@karinblundell5964 жыл бұрын
Ha ha .
@thereaction184 жыл бұрын
What caliber round does that thing fire?
@MrRedeyedJedi4 жыл бұрын
88mm
@metalmicky4 жыл бұрын
Or 1.5 kg s of tobacco !
@pete56684 жыл бұрын
The finest caliber of round, or canon, or any other musical form you like :)
@_DixonCider4 жыл бұрын
@@MrRedeyedJedi . Well, it is German, so that makes sense.
@nalin310814 жыл бұрын
@@MrRedeyedJedi smooth bore or rifled?
@TRICELLxGAMER4 жыл бұрын
How to play the RPG-7
@KnightsWithoutATable4 жыл бұрын
The sound reminds me a bit of a bass saxophone, but less resonance and more sound of the reed. I am really surprised that it is in good enough condition to still be played.
@JiveDadson4 жыл бұрын
It's a damn shame that bass saxes are not used in orchestras. Check out this gorgeous piece played on a (gasp) contrabass sax. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqtnnbeg1qzToZ8.html
@DieFlabbergast4 жыл бұрын
"More sound of the reed." Translation into standard English: "Sounds like an elephant farting in the fog."
@mal2ksc4 жыл бұрын
It sounds like a Tubax, only with shaky pitch.
@jimsy55304 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a fat man farting into a traffic cone.
@RatPfink664 жыл бұрын
It has some of that same chuffing in the middle range that the bass sax has, as if there are intrinsic acoustic issues with certain notes.
@Caroline-pb8xx4 жыл бұрын
I think it’s really cool we still give life to these instruments.
@steamynoodle20104 жыл бұрын
Girls be lining up!
@BillMarion4 жыл бұрын
Do "Smoke on the Water next."
@tinkmarshino4 жыл бұрын
FABULOUS! I had never heard of this instrument before.. it make such a melodious deep satiny sound.. very enjoyable and to thing that is almost 300 years old and has been playing the same music for all that time.. incredible thank you!
@yugandali4 жыл бұрын
Here is a man who doesn't need an aqualung to stay underwater for twenty minutes.
@funkdaddy3.04 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the tones from "Close Encounters of a Third Kind".
@TheRoswellCode4 жыл бұрын
...........played by Lurch.
@sugardaddy47143 жыл бұрын
And it case the aliens turn on us, we can use it to shoot their ships down...
@ujean564 жыл бұрын
Spectacular! Thanks for preserving this history and sharing it with all of us and not just the Lords and Ladies.
@harrytuttle81614 жыл бұрын
Spooky , deep and dark with a touch of sinister .
@OnNightmareRadio4 жыл бұрын
Is there a 15 hour version of this I can play for my neighbors?
@factenter67874 жыл бұрын
Just convert to mp3, cut the most obnoxious sounding part and loop it😂
@mfro44224 жыл бұрын
Bro, did he just got the brown note?
@aznSeddie4 жыл бұрын
Baroques and their comedically giant instruments...
@normamcmanus11394 жыл бұрын
Sounds like cowboys eating beans ‘round the campfire!
@JonatasMonte4 жыл бұрын
Really useful for when you need to hold a flag, play and fight alongside your regiment.
@OnNightmareRadio4 жыл бұрын
Please play Moanin’ by Charles Mingus on this...
@AidanMmusic964 жыл бұрын
Haha! I definitely want to see that alongside serpents, with a shawm solo!
@morganrobinson80424 жыл бұрын
You would tear apart the building.
@gerronspencer86694 жыл бұрын
Announcer: “And now, tones of baroque, bassoon.” Common folk: “It didn’t sound broke at all, quite nice actually.”
@iahelcathartesaura38874 жыл бұрын
We need more low register sounds like this in music. Or at least I definitely do. Love this. Excellent video.
@cheesenoodles83164 жыл бұрын
Wow...speachless. Love to see you bring that to a backporch jam.
@richardnosiglia37364 жыл бұрын
Registers 7.9 on the Richter scale. Neighbors gotta love when you play "Smoke On The Water" on that bad boy - rockin' !
@fancystacy Жыл бұрын
My husband plays this instrument every morning but I don't know where he hides it.
@jockojohn32944 жыл бұрын
In Russia..........We play orchestra @ 6 to 8 PM.....fire mortars from 9 PM to midnite......very versatile instrument......
@pauljmeyer14 жыл бұрын
Rich and sonorous in its deepness this instrument of its time and in playable condition is really special.
@argonwheatbelly6374 жыл бұрын
It's incredibly warm!
@mitcherny69654 жыл бұрын
Where has this instrument been all my life? Damn, my parents should have made me play one from the age of 5!
@elitetrader5468Ай бұрын
One of these in every home!
@chesterstevens88704 жыл бұрын
How to make the "Brown Note" classy.
@fg87fgd4 жыл бұрын
The IBM 3270 of the bassoon family.
@peteradaniel3 ай бұрын
His brother was head of wind brass and percussion at my school.
@doc34thfist Жыл бұрын
I never knew the contrabassoon or this version. Ty for this.
@dlwatib4 жыл бұрын
That strange feeling you get when you don't know whether to be impressed or to laugh out loud...
@JohnFoley17014 жыл бұрын
I’d love to hear more about how they built such instruments. I have a 46” lathe in my shop, but I’ve never bored out anything deeper than about a foot or so. They must have had to make some interesting special tools for this.
@welshtoro3256 Жыл бұрын
Good point.
@mantistoboggan2676 Жыл бұрын
People often look back on the past as inferior or less advanced, but that just isnt the truth. Empires have existed and died that were more advanced than us today.
@orgelspielerkmd2 жыл бұрын
He’s like the Attenborough of the OAE, really. I got to play the Baroque bassoon one summer at Oberlin BPI (Eichentopf copy) but sadly no contra. Interestingly enough, the reed I used for it was made from a modern contra blank, if memory serves.
@GuitarUniverse20135 ай бұрын
I guess this must be one way to guarantee yourself a gig and some kind of orchestra somewhere in the world. I hope the pay is better than most orchestral chairs, because you're gonna need at least two people carry this instrument around!
@pachamaridamofasat78034 жыл бұрын
I first thought it was a rocket launcher
@RutherfordRyan14 жыл бұрын
Excellent info, nice French and you’re a ringer for Robert Fripp !
@Tropategan Жыл бұрын
Amazing deep rich tones. Thank you.
@DieFlabbergast4 жыл бұрын
"the sounds are like nothing else" -- thank God!
@mr.anonymous55014 жыл бұрын
It's not supposed to be a solo instrument...
@mr.anonymous55014 жыл бұрын
@Esteban Outeiral Dias Go find out what the word, 'context' means, and then try and apply your new understanding to the initial comment, and my response.
@fiarubold4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like my hard drive
@Malcoladdin4 жыл бұрын
What is also impressive is how for the foot joint, 2 very long holes would have had to be drilled side by side. Not easy!
@Marcus5384 жыл бұрын
That contrabasson must be the travel version. Went to Bates museum in Oxford, a must see , hundreds of old and weird wind instruments saxophones mainly never knew there wete so many types , fascinating .
@HazeMotes4 жыл бұрын
Trying to smuggle this on to a flight to avoid fees: "That's all me baby!"
@emeltea334 жыл бұрын
Yeah!
@dees31794 жыл бұрын
Hope your fingers are feeling better now. Thanks for the great video.
@paulwhite87143 ай бұрын
I copied the original in Dublin museum back around 1998 with Graham Lyndon Jones. One for me and the other for him, if I recall, David Chatterton bought mine to compliment the Tauber Classical era contra I made for him in 1986 housed at the Bate Collection in Oxford where I did my PHD. It is unclear if David is playing the Dublin original or my copy? He was and is master of these instruments over the last four decades.
@TaKuGr4 жыл бұрын
Fine instrument... Low sound is really great.👍
@iankincaid12164 жыл бұрын
You ever look at an instrument and wonder...why
@elonmust74704 жыл бұрын
@InfiniteMushroom a pub? No I doubt that...
@ssinssg4 жыл бұрын
@InfiniteMushroom It's not meant as a solo instrument. As part of an ensemble though, it would be quite effective, as the guy said, to underpin the sound of a bassoon.
@dees31794 жыл бұрын
Surely the more important question would be, 'why not?'.
@happylittlemonk4 жыл бұрын
Or why am I watching this?
@TheActionBastard4 жыл бұрын
Person from the past: "I wonder if I can make a cannon into an instrument..."
@stickom4 жыл бұрын
i think i can count hertz,....crazy...love it...
@Markworth4 жыл бұрын
I see a lot of joke comments, but on a more serious note, I totally get it. This is actually a pretty cool instrument. This beast was probably pushing the technology of the day to its brink, but here it is. It still exists, it still plays, and it sounds quite alright! It's quite apparent that, for better or for worse, it has a lot of "personality" but I understand how that can be an enjoyable part of playing an instrument. All of my least favorite horns are the ones that do all the hard work for me.
@wadsefrgthzjkl3 жыл бұрын
After watching this even Bassists feel versatile.. :P
@willemkossen4 жыл бұрын
Ive never seen one of those. Richard Bobo needs to see this video!
@BenAtTheTubeАй бұрын
I like it!
@willshaman21284 жыл бұрын
AWESOME BASS LINES!!And they say size doesn't matter…
@andrewleblanc2449 Жыл бұрын
imagine lugging this around, and my middle school trombonists complain
@johntownsend73204 жыл бұрын
This instrument is the greatest lead for the brown note
@michaelwalter33992 жыл бұрын
Johann Sebastian Bach, to his contrabassoonist: "Fritz, the next time you fell one of those coming on, open a window." Fritz: "Actually, Herr Kapelmeister, that was the instrument, not me."
@masochisticmeese35554 жыл бұрын
Okay now you're just making instruments up
@benoitjacquesbibas76604 жыл бұрын
Quite practical to carry around😃
@marknung7514 жыл бұрын
That's a kickass bong!
@Twobarpsi4 жыл бұрын
Ok I'll see your bassoon, and raise you a contrabassoon!
@eddienerphy57884 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I've seen one of these being used to take down light military aircraft.
@NelsonClick8 ай бұрын
When I hear the word contrabassoon it sounds like I'm being called a dirty word in a language I don't speak. "Watch what you say; you contrabassoon!"
@RIlianP4 жыл бұрын
I am disappointing you didn't rob the museum to show us the dragon head.
@Twobarpsi4 жыл бұрын
Probably something you don't whip out, on the first date 😂😂😂!
@michaelwalter33993 жыл бұрын
During WWII, the German Wehrmacht repurposed many of these fine instruments as shoulder fired 88mm antitank weapons.
@maximerobinson3194 жыл бұрын
"the sounds are like nothing else" First time Mexican food eaters beg to differ.
@edwincancelii29174 жыл бұрын
I love that baroque contrabassoon made in England.
@leslielutz18744 жыл бұрын
It's the personal favorite of villains everywhere.
@Kezzeract4 жыл бұрын
ALL MBOUT DAT BASS
@alrizo11154 жыл бұрын
The ship is about to leave. Come on board
@jimsy55304 жыл бұрын
I love the angles you shoot these instruments at.
@RyanAlexanderBloom4 жыл бұрын
Now with pole axe attachment in case your orchestra is assaulted by mounted assailants during a performance.
@Demiglitch4 жыл бұрын
yo sick Baroque Contrabassoon dude
@omenoflaherty12944 жыл бұрын
First time I heard this piece was in the men’s room at Carnegie Hall. This guy nailed it.
@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman4 жыл бұрын
That would be fun in any marching band.
@groaningmole43384 жыл бұрын
Wow -- he actually started out by *showing the topic of the video* instead of babbling for ten minutes! Thumbs up. More videos should be set up this way.
@mklik44 жыл бұрын
I thought he's calling the hippos
@gorillaau4 жыл бұрын
I hope it's not a hippo mating call.
@SlavikMusiker4 жыл бұрын
When I was a music student, we played for schoolchildren to introduce them to musical instruments. The violinist, clarinetist and flutist finished their performance. The kids were very noisy. But then a phagotist came on stage and the children suddenly fell silent. And one of the schoolchildren shouted "He 's going to shoot now. Lie down!"
@minkusmcminkus75984 жыл бұрын
I now suffer bassoon envy.
@JonatasAdoM4 жыл бұрын
The sounds a creepy wooden house makes
@JustChiminin4 жыл бұрын
4:44 Open that E-hole! (everyone leaves the room)
@firstlast44134 жыл бұрын
I was trained as a bassoonist and studied with Roberto Sensale, contrabassoonist of NY Phil (who also played under Toscanini). So I know a bit about bassoons, if you'll pardon my presumption in saying so. This instrument is interesting...but it is not musical and there's no mystery in my mind as to why only one example of it has survived. The bassoon has a bad enough reputation as it is--the 'clown' of the orchestra, etc. We don't need to add to that by taking experimental instruments such as this one too seriously. A modern contrabassoon produces an exquisite, beautiful sound, right down to its bottom note. This early attempt to create a wind instrument playing an octave below everthing else should not be ignored...but it should stay in a museum, and not be heard in a concert hall. Sorry, but Simon Rattle was right. It really IS the Loch Ness Monster.
@1rewd1334 жыл бұрын
Baroque Contrabassoon is Terjerkistanian for "Fart Cannon".