Adolph Sax originally intended for the saxophone family to include sucontrabass instruments, but none were manufactured for over 150 years. There were several "attempts" to create a sucontrabass during the heyday of the lower saxes in the 20s--30s, but they were not correctly tuned, required several people to play, and were generally just scaled up versions of smaller saxes. Recently, Benedikt Eppelsheim has had great success with his line of bass wind instruments including bass and contrabass saxophones, and contrabass and subcontrabass tubaxes. The tubax is double-wrapped to make the key-work easier to play, just as Sax originally intended for his lower instruments (inspired by the ophicleide). The Tubax has a very narrow bore however, giving it a bell approximately the same size as a ba
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| - Adolph Sax originally intended for the saxophone family to include sucontrabass instruments, but none were manufactured for over 150 years. There were several "attempts" to create a sucontrabass during the heyday of the lower saxes in the 20s--30s, but they were not correctly tuned, required several people to play, and were generally just scaled up versions of smaller saxes. Recently, Benedikt Eppelsheim has had great success with his line of bass wind instruments including bass and contrabass saxophones, and contrabass and subcontrabass tubaxes. The tubax is double-wrapped to make the key-work easier to play, just as Sax originally intended for his lower instruments (inspired by the ophicleide). The Tubax has a very narrow bore however, giving it a bell approximately the same size as a ba
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| - Adolph Sax originally intended for the saxophone family to include sucontrabass instruments, but none were manufactured for over 150 years. There were several "attempts" to create a sucontrabass during the heyday of the lower saxes in the 20s--30s, but they were not correctly tuned, required several people to play, and were generally just scaled up versions of smaller saxes. Recently, Benedikt Eppelsheim has had great success with his line of bass wind instruments including bass and contrabass saxophones, and contrabass and subcontrabass tubaxes. The tubax is double-wrapped to make the key-work easier to play, just as Sax originally intended for his lower instruments (inspired by the ophicleide). The Tubax has a very narrow bore however, giving it a bell approximately the same size as a baritone (whereas a true subcontrabass saxophone would have a bell that could fit a baritone sax, or a maximum sized child, inside of it); this gives the tubax a much reedier tone than equivalent saxophones and many do not consider it a true saxophone. J’Élle Stainer created the prototype of the first true subcontrabass saxophone. It is based on their compact contrabass design, nicknamed the trashcan due to its double-wrap making it very short but very wide, but tuned a fourth lower in Bb. The prototype was unveiled in 2010. In 2012, both Benedikt Eppelsheim and J’Élle Stainer were working on building full-size true subcontrabass saxophones. In September, Benedikt Eppelsheim finished the first full-size true subcontrabass saxophone and J’Élle Stainer was close to finishing their first full-size true subcontrabass saxophone.
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