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.navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Musical_instruments_sidebar" title="Template:Musical instruments sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Musical_instruments_sidebar" title="Template talk:Musical instruments sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Musical_instruments_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Musical instruments sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>contrabass trumpet</b> is the largest and lowest-pitched member of the <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpet</a> family, sounding below the <a href="/wiki/Bass_trumpet" title="Bass trumpet">bass trumpet</a>. Only a few exist. The instrument appeared in the mid-20th century and has no orchestral or jazz repertoire.<sup id="cite_ref-notestem_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-notestem-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Usually built in <a href="/wiki/Eight-foot_pitch" title="Eight-foot pitch">12′</a> F a perfect fourth below the B♭ bass trumpet, it has the same length as the F <a href="/wiki/Contrabass_trombone" title="Contrabass trombone">contrabass trombone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cimbasso" title="Cimbasso">cimbasso</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Tuba" title="Tuba">tuba</a>. Some (sometimes called the <b>subcontrabass trumpet</b>) are built larger in 18′ B♭— an octave below the bass trumpet and two octaves below the standard B♭ trumpet. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contrabass_trumpet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix,_AZ_(colour-adjust).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg/220px-Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg/330px-Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg/440px-Contrabass_Trumpet_on_display_at_the_MIM_in_Phoenix%2C_AZ_%28colour-adjust%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Contrabass trumpet in B♭, c. 1925–1930 by <a href="/wiki/King_Musical_Instruments" title="King Musical Instruments">H. N. White Company</a>. <a href="/wiki/Musical_Instrument_Museum_(Phoenix)" title="Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)">Musical Instrument Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a><sup id="cite_ref-reddit-mim_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reddit-mim-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </figcaption></figure> <p>A contrabass trumpet in <a href="/wiki/Eight-foot_pitch" title="Eight-foot pitch">18′</a> B♭ played by tuba player <a href="/wiki/Don_Butterfield" title="Don Butterfield">Don Butterfield</a> appeared in 1962 on the TV show <i><a href="/wiki/I%27ve_Got_a_Secret" title="I've Got a Secret">I've Got a Secret</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-yt-secret_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yt-secret-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The instrument was loaned to the show from a <a href="/wiki/Claremont_Colleges" title="Claremont Colleges">Claremont College University</a> musical instrument collection, which is now at the <a href="/wiki/Musical_Instrument_Museum_(Phoenix)" title="Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)">Musical Instrument Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-claremont-sale_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-claremont-sale-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reddit-mim_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reddit-mim-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><br /> In 1967, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Bobo" title="Roger Bobo">Roger Bobo</a>, tuba player with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Philharmonic" title="Los Angeles Philharmonic">Los Angeles Philharmonic</a>, commissioned a contrabass trumpet from instrument maker George Strucel. Unhappy with the sound of the <a href="/wiki/Contrabass_trombone" title="Contrabass trombone">contrabass trombone</a> in recording the <i>Canzoni e Sonate</i> by <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Gabrieli" title="Giovanni Gabrieli">Gabrieli</a>, they built an instrument in 12′ F in the shape of a large bass trumpet, out of spare tubing and a bass trombone bell from the <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Bach_Corporation" title="Vincent Bach Corporation">Bach</a> factory.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tuba player Carl Kleinsteuber made four similarly configured contrabass trumpets in F in the 1990s. He made them cheaply out of spare brass instrument parts as "fun" instruments, acknowledging the absence of any known repertoire.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early 2000s, <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvian</a> trombonist Vairis Nartišs built four instruments in 18′ B♭ which he called "subcontrabass trumpets", two of which are now in museums.<sup id="cite_ref-reverb-subcontra_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reverb-subcontra-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nartiss-subcontra_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nartiss-subcontra-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Repertoire">Repertoire</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contrabass_trumpet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Repertoire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The contrabass trumpet has no historical repertoire in classical music or jazz. Whilst they have not gained wide appeal, they do occasionally appear in contemporary works. Slovenian composer <a href="/wiki/Igor_Krivokapi%C4%8D" title="Igor Krivokapič">Igor Krivokapič</a> has scored a contrabass trumpet part in his 2021 Symphony No. 5 <span title="Slovene-language text"><i lang="sl">Sedem trobent Apokalipse</i></span> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance">Performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contrabass_trumpet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Very few instrument makers offer a contrabass trumpet today. Lars Gerdt in Sweden offers a model in F based on the Roger Bobo instrument.<sup id="cite_ref-Lars-Gerdt_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lars-Gerdt-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their weight and unwieldy shape make contrabass trumpets difficult to hold up like a regular trumpet, so they are often played mounted to an adjustable floor rod. The <a href="/wiki/Timbre" title="Timbre">timbre</a> from their cylindrical-bore construction, use of valves and similar range allow them to be readily substituted with a <a href="/wiki/Cimbasso" title="Cimbasso">cimbasso</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-history_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Contrabass_trumpet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-notestem-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-notestem_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLeeman2020" class="citation web cs1">Leeman, Dan (27 July 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.notestem.com/blog/contrabass-trumpet/">"What In The World Is A Contrabass Trumpet?"</a>. <i>Notestem</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220803053729/https://www.notestem.com/blog/contrabass-trumpet/">Archived</a> from the original on 3 August 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Flugelhorn">Flugelhorn</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fiscorn" title="Fiscorn">Fiscorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuhlohorn" title="Kuhlohorn">Kuhlohorn</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tuba" title="Tuba">Tuba</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subcontrabass_tuba" title="Subcontrabass tuba">Subcontrabass tuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euphonium" title="Euphonium">Euphonium</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Double_bell_euphonium" title="Double bell euphonium">Double bell euphonium</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Antiquated</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clarion_(instrument)" title="Clarion (instrument)">Clarion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornett" title="Cornett">Cornett</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cornettino" title="Cornettino">Cornettino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mute_cornett" title="Mute cornett">Mute cornett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenor_cornett" title="Tenor cornett">Tenor cornett</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornu_(horn)" title="Cornu (horn)">Cornu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dord_(instrument)" title="Dord (instrument)">Dord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_horn" title="Natural horn">Natural horn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post_horn" title="Post horn">Post horn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_trumpet" title="Natural trumpet">Natural trumpet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baroque_trumpet" title="Baroque trumpet">Baroque trumpet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buccina" title="Buccina">Buccina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_trumpet" title="Slide trumpet">Slide trumpet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buccin" title="Buccin">Buccin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sackbut" title="Sackbut">Sackbut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helicon_(instrument)" title="Helicon (instrument)">Helicon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soprano_helicon" title="Soprano helicon">Soprano helicon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ophicleide" title="Ophicleide">Ophicleide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serpent_(instrument)" title="Serpent (instrument)">Serpent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudrophone" title="Sudrophone">Sudrophone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxtuba" title="Saxtuba">Saxtuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saxotromba" title="Saxotromba">Saxotromba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazooka_(instrument)" title="Bazooka (instrument)">Bazooka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jazzophone" title="Jazzophone">Jazzophone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indigenous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alphorn" title="Alphorn">Alphorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabal_(instrument)" title="Nabal (instrument)">Nabal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuvuzela" title="Vuvuzela">Vuvuzela</a></li> <li><a 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