Bass flute and contrabass flute

[DougM]

I stumbled on this flute player on IG named Daniela Mars (@danielamarsflute) and I noticed her playing two lower pitched flutes that I'd never seen before, and I was fascinated by this. The really big one is the contrabass and the other one that looks more like a regular flute but with an extended body is the bass one. Here's a look at them both from her YT channel. Am I the only ignorant one who has never seen these before? I've gotta expand my horizons and start paying attention to more classical music and musicians, not just rock, blues, and jazz guitar players

 

[kctelegas]

Wait til you see what they've done with saxophones.



While we're on the subject:

 

[Blrfl]

If you want to round out the set, the contrabass and double contrabass flutes:

 

[oldunc]

This one features James Carter, an incredible reed man, on bass flute. Ps- if you've never seen a contrabass saxophone, you have a treat awaiting somewhere

 

[middy]

I imagine they aren’t very loud and take a lot of wind. Really nice sound, though. Something like a bassoon, tuba, or baritone sax has a lot more upper harmonics and cuts through better.

 

[DougM]

Here's another phenomenal young lady I discovered on IG. One conductor said this about her- "There are two kinds of performers, virtuosos and musicians. Lisa is both". BTW, today is her birthday

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Colin Stetson on solo bass sax. It makes me feel like I'm in the belly of the beast.

 

[Engine Swap]

 

[maxvintage]

I've been teaching myself to play the flute in Irish music. I have a keyless flute pitched in D, which is kind of the standard, and a keyless flute pitched in Bb, which is about as big as you can play without keywork. The Bb is not harder to play and doesn't take any more wind, but that's probably because it's not as loud. and it's slower--you can't be as nimble.

It's all about the embouchure--some days I nail it, some days it sounds like a guy wheezing into a drainpipe.

you can see with the really low flutes they are close to truning it into a whsitle or a recorder, where you just blow into it and the "fipple," the mouthpiece, does the work of setting the air to vibrating

 

[maxvintage]

Also check this out: A bamboo flute that can only play one note, but watch what he can do with it.

 

[memorex]

Other unusual high and low instruments