page_title: Subcontrabass saxophone
hierarchical_section_title: Subcontrabass saxophone
caption_attribution_description: English: Todd "Big Horn" White playing his full-size Subcontrabass Saxophone.
context_page_description: The subcontrabass saxophone is a type of saxophone that Adolphe Sax patented and planned to build but never constructed. Sax called this imagined instrument saxophone bourdon. It is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭, one octave below the bass saxophone, two octaves below the tenor saxophone, and three octaves and a major second below its written pitch.
context_section_description: The subcontrabass saxophone is a type of saxophone that Adolphe Sax patented and planned to build but never constructed. Sax called this imagined instrument saxophone bourdon (named after a low pitch stop found on many a pipe organ). It is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭, one octave below the bass saxophone, two octaves below the tenor saxophone, and three octaves and a major second below its written pitch.
caption: An Eppelsheim Full-size Subcontrabass Saxophone
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