Totally not flute related, but OMG!

[Cathrine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwTorKNmED4 That's got to be the biggest saxophone I've ever seen.. I didn't even know those existed untill 5 minutes ago..

[PhlutePharmD]

OMG is right - I was getting short of breath and dizzy just watching.

[Phineas]

Hey, you should see this guy play the smallest sax the Soprillo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyb3FzXZrs

[Cathrine]

haha, yeah, I saw that one too! Even discovered a tubax(tuba + saxophone).. Freaking amazing there's even a subcontrabass saxophone..
Can't really understand how people transport those things! Imagine using public transportation with it! xP

[pied_piper]

haha, yeah, I saw that one too! Even discovered a tubax(tuba + saxophone).. Freaking amazing there's even a subcontrabass saxophone..
Can't really understand how people transport those things! Imagine using public transportation with it! xP

When I was in high school, I occasionally played our school's bass sax. At some point, the original case fell apart and the high school shop built us a new case as a woodworking project. The exterior was a very simple rectangular wood box that was nearly six feet long and had sufficient padding inside to protect the instrument. When we used the bass sax for off-site performances, we had to load it in the back door of one of the school buses because it was easier than trying to take the large case through the front doors.

Once, we were going to a performance and needed the bass sax, so we loaded it in the back of the school bus. Unfortunately, the bus broke down en route. One of the other buses went on ahead and called for a replacement bus. When the replacement bus arrived, we of course had to transfer everything to the other bus - bass sax included. Well, we were in uniform for the performance, so we decided to make a little show of the process. Our band uniforms were replicas of the British Grenadier Guards: Red tunics with a white belt, black pants, and tall black (simulated) bearskin hats. Six of us from the sax section, put on our bearskin hats, hoisted the bass sax case (which looked very similar to a wood coffin) up on our shoulders and proceeded to do a solemn slow march of the bass sax case up to the other bus. Keep in mind that this occurred on the side of a busy highway with lots of cars going by. Quite a few cars slowed to see what was going on. Now, we thought that was really funny, but it didn't begin to compare to what was about to happen.

After we were aboard the other bus, we proceeded on to the performance. A few miles down the road, a police car came up behind the bus with its lights flashing and pulled the bus over. Well, the police officer came up to the driver to explain why he stopped us. It seems that the police received a call reporting a group of people in strange uniforms that were loading a pine coffin onto a school bus and thought that was rather peculiar. He asked for an explanation, so we opened the "coffin" and invited the officer to take a look. He simply said "OK" and got off the bus shaking his head while all of the students on the bus were roaring with laughter...

[Cathrine]

haha, yeah, I saw that one too! Even discovered a tubax(tuba + saxophone).. Freaking amazing there's even a subcontrabass saxophone..
Can't really understand how people transport those things! Imagine using public transportation with it! xP

When I was in high school, I occasionally played our school's bass sax. At some point, the original case fell apart and the high school shop built us a new case as a woodworking project. The exterior was a very simple rectangular wood box that was nearly six feet long and had sufficient padding inside to protect the instrument. When we used the bass sax for off-site performances, we had to load it in the back door of one of the school buses because it was easier than trying to take the large case through the front doors.

Once, we were going to a performance and needed the bass sax, so we loaded it in the back of the school bus. Unfortunately, the bus broke down en route. One of the other buses went on ahead and called for a replacement bus. When the replacement bus arrived, we of course had to transfer everything to the other bus - bass sax included. Well, we were in uniform for the performance, so we decided to make a little show of the process. Our band uniforms were replicas of the British Grenadier Guards: Red tunics with a white belt, black pants, and tall black (simulated) bearskin hats. Six of us from the sax section, put on our bearskin hats, hoisted the bass sax case (which looked very similar to a wood coffin) up on our shoulders and proceeded to do a solemn slow march of the bass sax case up to the other bus. Keep in mind that this occurred on the side of a busy highway with lots of cars going by. Quite a few cars slowed to see what was going on. Now, we thought that was really funny, but it didn't begin to compare to what was about to happen.

After we were aboard the other bus, we proceeded on to the performance. A few miles down the road, a police car came up behind the bus with its lights flashing and pulled the bus over. Well, the police officer came up to the driver to explain why he stopped us. It seems that the police received a call reporting a group of people in strange uniforms that were loading a pine coffin onto a school bus and thought that was rather peculiar. He asked for an explanation, so we opened the "coffin" and invited the officer to take a look. He simply said "OK" and got off the bus shaking his head while all of the students on the bus were roaring with laughter...

hahah! Must have been hilarious!

[cflutist]

Here is a picture of my friend Tracy playing her Contra Bass Flute in my kitchen,

http://www.websailor.org/gallery/v/Musi ... ewsIndex=1

[pied_piper]

Here is a picture of my friend Tracy playing her Contra Bass Flute in my kitchen,

http://www.websailor.org/gallery/v/Musi ... ewsIndex=1

Cool! Who makes that contra? It almost looks as if it's made from standard PVC pipe.

[cflutist]

Ask my friend Tracy, and here is her reply:

Now that I look up Jelle Hogenhuis, who made my flute, I see that he has switched to metal headjoints now for his contras! But he does have a clip of how they sound in a flute choir...

http://hogenhuis-flutes.com/index.html

Hard to imagine that those are flutes~they sound like bassoons! I think they must be his silver versions of the contrabass & subcontra. It looks like he doesn't even make them all PVC anymore~the headjoints at least are metal now...I do still like my plumbing version~it sounds more flutey to me...

[pied_piper]

Thanks for the info!

[Bo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwTorKNmED4 That's got to be the biggest saxophone I've ever seen.. I didn't even know those existed untill 5 minutes ago..

It would surely be too big for me!
I think I will have to stick to the flute...

[pied_piper]

Well Bo, if flutes are more your speed, how about this one :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Nz0UGuQyc

[Bo]

It's a tough world for small people....