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Author Message cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1291 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 11:59 am:    Really low-down. Peter dfung60 Senior Member Username: dfung60 Post Number: 565 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 1:39 pm:    Really cool! There was one of these at the NAMM Museum of Music Making in Carlsbad, CA. We visited last month and there was a display of unusual saxophones. I don't remember that one having all the engraving, but how many of these can there be? pauldo Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 877 Registered: 6-2006 Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 12:35 pm:    I LOVE that tone! peoplechipper Advanced Member Username: peoplechipper Post Number: 308 Registered: 2-2009 Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 9:50 pm:    Saxophone players can be really annoying( a guy who regularily plays across the street from my work comes to mind...he's way too happy-toned), but this guy sounds good...Tony byoung Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1395 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 11:45 pm:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws george_wright Intermediate Member Username: george_wright Post Number: 158 Registered: 3-2005 Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 5:06 pm:    As long-time readers of this forum know, I play more saxophone than bass or guitar, so I can't avoid commenting :-). In Peter's posted video, Randy Emerick is playing a contrabass sax. This is an octave below a baritone, which is the largest sax commonly seen. Most modern baritones can sound the C below the E string on a four-string bass, or the first fret of the B string on a five-string bass. The contrabass is an octave below that. The contrabass is, IMHO, only a novelty instrument. It's too big to transport easily; can only be played from a rigid stand; takes too much wind for legato passages. But it does make for a fun YouTube posting :-)! terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1988 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 - 1:31 am:    And how much would one of them cost?? I once had a really good look at a sax players instrument years ago..very complex levers, rods, keys and pad valves so no wonder they can cost the earth. And then there is the maintenance of them which cannot be cheap george_wright Intermediate Member Username: george_wright Post Number: 159 Registered: 3-2005 Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 - 8:39 am:    Emerick is playing an Epplesheim contra, which costs about $45,000. Maintenance depends, of course, on care and usage, but it's not really bad (based on my experience with everything from a sopranino to a bass). Practice regularly and play weekly, and you're looking at $50/100 per year. terryc Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1991 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 7:50 am:    From an engineering point of view, they are an incredible piece of equipment as I suppose are clarinets, flutes, bassoons etc.