Talk:Subcontrabass saxophone

message: Is quite nonexistant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.209.162.219 (talk) 19:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Sorry, guess that edit wasn't obvious.  The point is, this is an article about subcontrabass saxophones -- not tubaxes.  That same link exists on the tubax article.  I see it as confusing to have a link to a tubax performance on an article on subcontrabass saxophones.  I readily admit this is not the most persuasive argument ever made for removal of a link, and I'm fine with leaving it there pending consensus. -- Rsholmes 00:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Is Tubax trademarked by Benedikt Eppelsheim?  I would tend to assume so, but I see nothing on his B flat Tubax page or his E flat Tubax page to indicate so -- no "(tm)", no "Tubax is a trademark..." etc.
:I just searched the US patent office at http://www.uspto.gov/ and it's not listed there.  You can always write to Eppelsheim and ask; he is friendly and responds to emails.  Badagnani 01:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As with other saxes, the C version is not a big seller.  See http://www.saxpics.com/the_gallery/Eppelsheim/info/1.htm and http://www.paschart.ch/dateien/agenda_frame.htm .  Badagnani 01:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: (tm)? C?

message: There's a video circulating on FB  which claims to be a sub-cb sax.  I'm not an expert.  Is it one? Matchups 23:12, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was one built? 

message: while they aren't found much, if at all, outside of church orchestras in Brazil, they still exist and have been for at least 2 years, as that is the earliest videos you can find (The video in question). There isn't a ton of information on them but I'd assume they have a range of Db0 (posible C0) to Ab2 (posible A2), 1 octave below the contrabass. To find the rare videos of these, atleast on YouTube, you have to search "Saxofone octacontrabaixo," which I'd assume to be Portuguese for octocontrabass saxophone. I feel that there is enough information on these to put them into this article, or at least acknowledge their existence. That1Person2500 (talk) 19:06, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there no end to this madness??! Cheers for the heads-up, I will investigate. I also think we can remove the "debate" about whether a tubax is a saxophone or not. Whilst there may well be some valid debate, there is none in any WP:RS that I can find, so as far as Wikipedia is concerned, hearsay does not count. — Jon (talk) 02:06, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

text: You're right, there's virtually nothing about it other than some YouTube videos, which won't pass muster as WP:RS. A manufacturer catalogue or website product page would do, but there's nothing about it (yet?) on https://www.jellestainer.com — Jon (talk) 02:39, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

text: I've added a mention of the E♭ octocontrabass under §Repertoire, as well as use by church orchestras. It's a bit cheeky to use an Instagram post, but it's only interim until we find something better. Interestingly, the Portuguese article for Congregação Cristã no Brasil (CCB) mentions in an un-sourced footnote (67) that saxophones below the baritone are no longer officially endorsed: "In 2010, a teaching topic banned some instruments, namely: Accordion (or Harmonica), Acoustic Double Bass, Bass Tuba, Piccolo, Requinta, all saxophones lower than the baritone and any instrument modified in relation to its original design, allowing only musicians who played these instruments before this teaching" (Firefox Translate). There is not much further information in their Manual de Orientação Orquestral (MOO) either. — Jon (talk) 02:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Octacontrabass saxophone