Posted by Mathew drever on September 04, 2002 at 08:41:34:
In Reply to: contra tuba? posted by Tim on September 01, 2002 at 00:14:17:
I've never heard of a BBb contrabass tuba, which is pretty much a bee flat tuba, but I've heard of a BBBb flat contrabass tuba, and seen pictures of them. They play an octave lower in comparison with your standard 4/4(or whatever) BBb tuba. They're frickin huge and I have no idea how men develop lung capacities big enough to play those things. You also get CCC contrabass tubas. If you go to the dutch tuba site there are a number of tuba pictures available. A couple of them are contrabass tubas. They're impractical. You probably couldn't lift the damn thing up. I wonder what they sound like