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Subcontrabass saxophone
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 the lowest
stop
on the
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.
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