Sounds like a chainsaw on steroids

[poomshanka]

For my money, the mighty Tubax will cut down more trees...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArYscd6SOw

In context with another group just tearing it up...

http://www.daveamason.com/tubax/in_the_speed_mode.mp3

Yes, reeds from Home Depot...

...D

[Sally Larsen]

Is this the sound we've all been searching for?

http://videos.streetfire.net/search/f1+ ... 56f20b.htm

[iiipopes]

I have a sub contra-bass clarinet sold by Linton (made by ORSI) that I've never been able to toot because no one makes a reed for it. Old man Linton said he had about 40 of these things made and no one would ever take on the project of mass-producing reeds for them. Something about the cane would have to be larger that what is commercially available. The mouthpiece is just a dab smaller than one of those 'doggie' footballs. The reed needs to be a full one inch wide... 3/16 wider than a conventional bari sax or bass clarinet reed. This thing looks like a Polish bari sax.

Bloke.... know where I can find a reed? The Sax Gourmet couldn't help.

Just a thought -- contact the companies who make synthetic reeds and see if they have stock wide enough to either make some for you or send you some stock to carve up a couple. And the synthetic should last longer than natural cane.

[Dan Schultz]

Bloke.... know where I can find a reed? The Sax Gourmet couldn't help.

I ain't Bloke, and any money couldn't get me to play him on TV, but here's an idea. A lot of casual bass sax players use a bari mouthpiece...would a contrbass clarinet mouthpiece fit?

No one's been able to make it work on this one! There have been some experiments to adapt other woodwind mouthpieces to this horn, but all have been failures. Here's why...



Here are some pictures of the horn:



I say that nothing has worked, but that's probably just because it hasn't been worth messing with too much since there were only a handful of these horns made. Mr. Linton indicated that there may have been around 40 originally made. I know of only two survivors.

[OldsRecording]

I have several boxes of contra-alto contrabass cl. reeds, but I doubt that - if I were to go measure them - they would be 1" wide.

Would it be possible to get blank cane stock (or just a whole chunk of cane) and carve your own reeds?

[eupher61]

Dan, that's a contrabass clarinet mouthpiece? HOLY CRAPOLA!

Looks more like a bass sax mouthpiece, though, given the cork and the "female" design of the tenon.
get out your knife, dude, you got some scrapin' to do.

[windshieldbug]

Ever try 2 smaller reeds, side by side!?

[Dan Schultz]

I have several boxes of contra-alto contrabass cl. reeds, but I doubt that - if I were to go measure them - they would be 1" wide.

Would it be possible to get blank cane stock (or just a whole chunk of cane) and carve your own reeds?

The biggest problem, as I understand it,... is that the wider the finished reed, the larger the diameter of the parent cane has to be. In order to make a reed one inch wide, the piece of cane would need to be roughly 2 1/2" in diameter.... beyond the range of commercially-available cane. I received that information from LaVoz.... who originally experimented with making these reeds. Plastic seems to be the way to go. But.... that takes some serious development, too.