The contrabass saxophone is the lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper. It is extremely large (twice the length of tubing of the baritone saxophone, with a bore twice as wide, standing 1.9 meters tall, or 6 feet four inches) and heavy (approximately 20 kilograms, or 45 pounds), and is pitched in the key of E♭, one octave below the baritone.

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  • The contrabass saxophone is the lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper. It is extremely large (twice the length of tubing of the baritone saxophone, with a bore twice as wide, standing 1.9 meters tall, or 6 feet four inches) and heavy (approximately 20 kilograms, or 45 pounds), and is pitched in the key of E♭, one octave below the baritone. Approximately 25 examples of this instrument exist in the world today including recently made instruments and a handful of surviving examples from the saxophone craze of the 1920s by Evette-Schaeffer and Kohlert. The worldwide number of existing contrabass saxophones is currently growing by 4 or 5 instruments each year.
  • Le saxophone contrebasse est un instrument de musique de la partie grave de la famille des saxophones. Sa tonalité est en mi<math>\flat</math>. C'est un instrument très rare, puisque seulement une trentaine d'exemplaires ont été construits entre 1846 et 2000.
  • De contrabassaxofoon is de grootste saxofoon. Er bestaan er anno 2006 13 van op de hele wereld. Er bestaan grotere saxofoons dan deze contrabas, de subcontrabassaxofoon of tubax, maar de meningen zijn verdeeld of dit instrument nog een saxofoon is of niet.
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  • Anthony Braxton performing on
    a contrabass saxophone.
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  • Contrabass Saxophone
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  • In E: sounds two octaves and a major sixth lower than written.
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  • Sax range.svg
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  • The contrabass saxophone is the lowest-pitched extant member of the saxophone family proper. It is extremely large (twice the length of tubing of the baritone saxophone, with a bore twice as wide, standing 1.9 meters tall, or 6 feet four inches) and heavy (approximately 20 kilograms, or 45 pounds), and is pitched in the key of E♭, one octave below the baritone.
  • Le saxophone contrebasse est un instrument de musique de la partie grave de la famille des saxophones. Sa tonalité est en mi<math>\flat</math>. C'est un instrument très rare, puisque seulement une trentaine d'exemplaires ont été construits entre 1846 et 2000.
  • De contrabassaxofoon is de grootste saxofoon. Er bestaan er anno 2006 13 van op de hele wereld. Er bestaan grotere saxofoons dan deze contrabas, de subcontrabassaxofoon of tubax, maar de meningen zijn verdeeld of dit instrument nog een saxofoon is of niet.
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  • Contrabass saxophone
  • Saxophone contrebasse
  • Contrabassaxofoon
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