Hello top 15... didn't expect to see you with this, figured this might sift, but didn't think it'd jump to top 15 so quick.

EDIT: I should perhaps note that I found this after coming across http://videosift.com/video/Lorde-Royals-covered-on-alto-sax-and-giant-contrabass-sax for some reason, and then looking up the contrabass sax, and from there eventually got this which I thought was interesting enough to share.

You had me at Iron Man.
The contrabass was awesome, but I was really expecting some Wagner. I mean, come on.

My dad plays the trombone, and yet somehow I thought that there were only tenor and bass 'bones. So, it was fun to watch half of the bass section switch over to the huge ones that I guess must be the contrabasses.

I suppose it requires a beefier set of lungs to play the contra?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

That's one crazy bass.

It's a 3-string contrabass balalaika, and its name is Akerø. He is the brother of their previous contrabass balalaika Børge.

all-time fav Reich has to be Music for 18 Musicians....marimba, oboes, contrabass and voices.......top of the tops...takes some meditative performers to render, and timeless as ever..
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Reich-Music-18-Musicians/dp/B000026258

...I'm a bitter musician because I have never had enough cash at once for a Selmer Mark IV....or a contrabass clarinet, or any of those high-priced horns......and also cause the only LP's pressed anymore, have Japanese liners, and are also, cost prohibitive....


... take that back, i have had the cash all at once b-4, but spent it on bullshit....