Careless Whisper forever and always 🎷 Check out this 6’7” 40lb contrabass saxophone invented by Adolphe Sax in our Musical Instruments galleries—one of only ten Evette-Schaeffer contrabasses known to still exist! Evette-Schaeffer (French). Contrabass Saxophone in E flat, ca. 1925. Brass, white metal. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

How to play the Bartok Bass Sackbut solo in 6 steps: Just kidding! It’s a bass trombone solo. But fun fact: it’s impossible! No really, a bass trombone player cannot gliss from B to F, just C to F. Womp womp. Thanks to the handle, the sackbut has got the reach to make this solo possible. Go to the Yale Philharmonia concert tomorrow (1/27/2023) at Woolsey Hall 7:30pm EST. Livestream it if you can’t make it! You can find it by googling “Yale Philharmonia Concert”. Fun fact, I wanted the bass tromb

204K views · 2.8K reactions | How low can you go?  Principal Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith gets to the bottom of the contra bass trombone (literally) at the Royal Albert Hall 來 #brass #orchestra #classicalmusic #basstrombone #trombone | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Facebook