@@LucaTheStar I believe I am aware of this and I've listened to several with my better quality ear phones. Lol, went looking for fun stuff when I got my new ones. Specifically the recordings made by museums etc. Certain loads of traffic feel/sound in a similar manner to me. Most people feel these sounds more than hear them? I'm lucky if/when I can experience both. This recording at the time felt like a shiver only inside my body near my organs, but not outside skin or extremities. Sorry not sure what your intention was so that's what I got for you. Be well.
Yes! It’s actually the whole point of Double basses and more, that’s why Lower pitched things go in the back rather Thant he front as it’s used to make it seem all together and fitting so it makes it all sound fitting and not just bland. I was teached this when I was switching instruments to Bass to cello, since background instruments aren’t really fit for playing songs and Bass and cello are in the back but bass is way way back, Cello can still play music as it is in the middle.
I was always poor, but one day I had the opportunity to watch an orchestra. I felt like Heaven and started crying without any explanation. There's no way how to explain the strength of the sound when you are there. Listening classic music at home is not the same.
Absolutely brilliant! I love that in the upper registers of this instrument, it can cut through an entire orchestra, and when you play it, it makes a rich tone similar to a double bass.
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra is the only orchestra to have this instrument in their string section. They will be on tour later this year so if you like to hear this in person you can! :)
OctoQC It's the same register as a Modern Double Bass but because of the really big body, it's big enough for those low notes but it's also big enough that you can play it w/ Keys.
Bonjour Eric Chappell ! Je suis entrain de réaliser un épisode sur la présentation de l'octobasse qui devrait sortir d'ici un mois et vous êtes cité dedans ainsi que l'OSM. Je cherche donc des musiques d'octobasse pouvant m'aider à l'illustrer. Me donnez vous l'autorisation d'utiliser vos enregistrements ? Je mettrais un lien vers votre chaîne RU-vid en retour :) Merci à vous !
Bien sûr, je mets ces vidéos en ligne pour illustrer les possibilités de ce merveilleux instrument. Je serais intéressé de voir votre épisode quand il est sorti!
Playing this beast with a french bow is a slick idea. Don’t know why one would use a bow that you can’t really hold properly when this sounds as good as it does!
Certains ont des manettes et d’autres ont des pedales ... celui là ne fait pas 4 m de haut comme j’ai déjà pu le voir ... peut-on m’éclairer sur ces différences ? Il semble y avoir plusieurs types d’octobasses
This is most likely to be the double bass part played on this octobass in its higher register. Even then I don’t see why you couldn’t double the bass down an octave. So doubling double basses then?
Wonderful! Now I'm thinking, why don't they develop a key system to make the OB more playable? As they did with woodwind instruments, the piano or the accordion?
Well, obviously they did, but that is a really rudimentary system. I'm talking about a system like the ones used in keyboard instruments and big woodwind instruments that make them actually playable and even virtuosistic.
@@Leoptxr i think half the problem with playing the octobass virtuousticly (word?) is how slow it is to get the strings going when playing lower notes. Look at how he even plucks the string when playing the low C @2:35 to help it get it going.
As a cellist I think the lever system is fairly practical. Ultimately the octobase is too obscure for people to train exclusively on so I think they just tried to make it easy to learn for double base players or cellists who already have good bow technique.
P.tain, c'est ça qui manque à toutes les interprétations déjà subies ! Sans oublier Berlioz qui l'exigeait dans ses oeuvres et n'a jamais été exaucé. Sortons de la routine, boutons les routiniers !
That’s the thing about instruments like this. On their own, their sound is harsh and a bit hard to pin down by the human ear because of its low register. But when paired with actual music, suddenly you can hear their melody and the difference between individual notes! I’m sure there is some science behind this phenomenon that I’m not familiar with the name of😂
string instruments hit me in waves that will just make stand in one spot and not be able to move. what does it FEEL like when you are in its wave path? the floor? how does it feel on your feet?
@@octoqc1606 That answers a question I had. It seemed that most of the notes were in the range of an "ordinary" double bass (an instrument I play). I was wondering why I was able to hum some of the notes which, according to the normal (low) tuning, would be below my vocal range. Thanks for telling us this.
@@octoqc1606 Richard Bobo, the guy who is working on making the first subcontrabassoon, told me that there is apparently a theory that says that Vuillaume's original octobasses were tuned to have a bottom note of C1, merely a major 3rd below the low E of the traditional 4-string double bass, same C as the modern double bass with C-extension, and that the body was so oversized in order to give more power to the normally weaker lowest notes of the traditional double basses; the octos with thicker strings that go down to C0 may therefore not be historically accurate. Do you have any more information/insight about that? The octobass in Paris in the following video appears to be tuned such that the lowest string is C1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9BSs3FYQm5E.html
