What is the difference in sound? Ive seen pictures of a keilworth bass sax and its neck is weird...whats the difference in sound?

Not quite sure, but I know Bass sax is lower than Bari, and probably in a different key.

If it`s lower than Bari than thats a realy low intrument

so first of, yes, they are in different keys. The bari being in Eb and the bass being in Bb. The bass sounds an octave lower than the tenor, bu it is usually written two octaves higher than it sounds(so it stays in check with other instruments, otherwise it would be way to low.) There are two types of bass saxes, the european and the american. The differences are in the way the neck is positioned. There is a sax lower than the bass sax, the contrabass in Eb, which is almost 7 feet tall.

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Have you ever heard of the Sub-contra bass saxophone? It took 3 people to play it!

Yeah...OMG did you just see that pig in the air? OOH a malted milk ball just pelted me on the head...

I have seen two picures of a "sub-contrabass", but it was never actually created. You can see the pictures at www.contrabass.com. Click on the compendium.

The bass sax almost sounds like a tuba and bari sax you can listen to it and the contrabass sax on a nuclear whales cd.

hey u guys go to this link http://lachesis.caltech.edu/jayeaston/galleries/sax_family/subcontrabass_sax.html

there is this guy who has the whole family of saxophone inc the contrabass! it is not actually called a saxophone it is called a tubax but it is close enough . . . if u want 2 see the rest of his site type jayeaston.com into ur browser, its quite good

Hey, do ya`ll have any pictures of a sub-contrabass sax??? I`d love to see one.

There is pictures of all of the saxes on jay easton`s site. The link is contained in the previous post.

yeh go to the link

I play the bari sax and it sounds alot better than the bass.

the sub -contra bass has been around a long time. the tubax is a new version that uses a bari mouth piece. if you want to here a contra-bass sax and or see one check out the nucler whales web-site . they are still made by a company in italy. cost is around $50.000. t.t.f.n.