Right you are, Bill. Oscar's Imperial Bosendorfer 290 goes way down to
C0, a full sixth below the A0, lowest note of the standard piano. The
regular contrabassoon plays down to Bb0, and can go down to A0 with a
special extended bell joint, mostly used for Wagner and Mahler pieces.
I can imagine that playing low octaves on the Bosendorfer with bottom
notes that low must give the player delusions of grandeur!
--Peter
Bill sez:
> But not as low as that Bosendorfer that Oscar Peterson played?
>
I sez:
>
> That's our coach, Adam Trucell. He plays in the (Portland) Oregon
> Symphony. Yes, he is indeed playing one of those contra thingies. The
> regular bassoon is eight feet of tubing folded back on itself once. The
> contra is sixteen feet of tubing folded twice into an ellipse. He let us
> try it. The lowest notes are also the lowest notes on the piano, minus
> one key. They are so low that you almost don't hear the pitch, you
feel it.
>
> Bellowing bedpost Peter
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