3D-printing, GigaReeds, and more

[@caman5]

I love that this instrument is pitched so low that you can hear the difference in vibration speed between the sound waves.

[@_iphoenix_6164]

It's great, you hear a decent melody, and then a washing machine takes over.

[@Subcontrabassoon]

Which is -sadly- how some people feel about contrabassoon

[@_iphoenix_6164]

@@Subcontrabassoon That's completely unfair, a contrabassoon actually has discernable tone

[@Subcontrabassoon]

@@_iphoenix_6164 You and I know that. Unfortunately, I've heard "contrabassoonists" that challenge that assertion.

[@connorgibbsmusic]

It's awfully silly but I'd admittedly write for the "GigaRackett"... Love your work as always, Richard!

[@rockdalegaming8944]

Richard will be receiving my concerto soon.

[@mason11198]

I NEED IT!!!!

[@mason11198]

@@rockdalegaming8944 Was that a joke or did you actually use it?

[@rockdalegaming8944]

@@mason11198 mostly in jest...

[@DietterichLabs]

"and that is the highest note this instrument plays" This is hilarious

[@_2hu4u]

if these notes were named organ stops it would go from "64' Helicopter" to "128' Police banging on the door"

[@Kaiveran]

"256' Party Next Door" "512' Big Ben's Mechanism"

[@aidenbagshaw5573]

When you play the lowest note on this thing, I don't if this is pitch (G-2), or rhythm (360 bpm). Maybe you could use this instrument as percussion?

[@UpupBinweevils]

Aiden Bagshaw that’s what I thought 😂

[@eialzorn9284]

it's like the opposite of extratone

[@g67785]

Windcussion

[@Ithirahad]

That's a pneumatic metronome. Or, would be, with a tuning slide and appropriate increment markings.

[@peterhoulihan9766]

That was fascinating. One use I can think of for the giga rackette is teaching how sound is actually produced in a wind instrument. It's essentially an oboe in slow motion.

[@BlameItOnGreg]

You should do overdubbed chords with the GigaRacket to show the polyrhythm-chord-ratio relationship!

[@xenontesla122]

Did you use a tuner or a *metronome* to tune the gigarackett? XD I love when people do creative things with instrument construction.

[@Subcontrabassoon]

The easiest way I found was to use Audacity, find the number of samples between waveform peaks, and divide by 44,100 :-)

[@xenontesla122]

@@Subcontrabassoon Cool.

[@nicholasneyhart396]

G-1 is able to be tuned by a metronome but only if it is set to 360ish bpm.

[@Subcontrabassoon]

If you all have any follow-up questions about the GigaRackett, please leave them in the comments and I can make a follow-up video!

[@MrInitialMan]

I would love to see this with added keywork and used in an ensemble! Maybe the GigaRackett could be used to drone on the root notes of chords, more as an effect than as a note.

[@gammafoxlore2981]

I could be legitimately useful, its a 64' pitch instrument. That is like the boardwalk organ's 64' stop.

[@rockdalegaming8944]

Hopefully, a second higher octave can be put in. @@gammafoxlore2981

[@gammafoxlore2981]

@@rockdalegaming8944 That would be done using the higher stops in the pedal.

[@rockdalegaming8944]

I was talking about the gigarackett lol. @@gammafoxlore2981

[@sreeser3512]

I need to listen to this again through headphones. Phone speakers sound like trash even down near E1, so even the G-1 is just a slapping sound with no pitch. Unless that's what it actually sounds like.

[@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799]

C0 is the lowest pitch human ear can distinguish as a "note" and not just vibration, so anything below E0-C0 will sound like flapping with no pitch, if you are a human

[@scottbiggs8894]

I love that duet! It's beautiful and sonorous and exotic. Thank you--worth listening to the end for that lovely song.

[@SteelSkin667]

Really cool stuff, and a great way to demonstrate that pitch and rhythm are the same thing.

[@Viper-dz2kw]

I came here from another video to see the chromatic scale so I haven’t seen the rest of the video, but what? That makes like literally no sense

[@SteelSkin667]

​@@Viper-dz2kw If the frequency of a waveform is low enough, your brain doesn't perceive it as a continuous pitch, but as a series of individual beats.

[@jaydenmartin2838]

I'm going to write a sonata for the giga racket now

This is fantastic! A question: if the Gigareed costs around 100$, what would a GigaRackett cost?

[@Subcontrabassoon]

For my follow-up video, I'll print another modified GigaReed exactly like I use on the GigaRackett so everyone can get a better look. It wouldn't cost $100 because it doesn't use the expensive PLA/Wood Composite material or the ultra-thick brass wire.

[@williammurdoch626]

I want a GigaRacket for Christmas. Santa come through 🙏

[@xander1052]

It actually could have use in the same place as an octobass, only not as good and more of a meme :P

[@splodinatekabloominate846]

if G-1 = 12 Hz, then... Ben Lee claims to play 15 notes per second 15 notes per second is 15 Hz 15 Hz = ~B-1 Ben Lee claims to play a B-1

[@chromaticswing9199]

Adam Neely x Twoset collab when haha

[@g67785]

Who knew Ben Lee was just playing the Gigarackett this whole time. If you can play it high, you can play it low.

[@musokid89]

Oh, Richard! You've really outdone yourself this time! I love crazy projects like this and you're so good at them! You're like a crazy genius! Has anyone funded your research? The Giga-racket could totally be used for composing film scores etc :D I hope one of the big manufacturers (Eppelsheim?) produces your Sub-contrabassoon with your incredible designs! Good luck with everything!

[@rockdalegaming8944]

The gigarackett would have been amazing on classic Doctor Who (Pertwee and TBaker).

[@onegreenghost3351]

Can you please make a Garklein Recorder/Gigarackett duet? I want to hear the monstrosity that comes with this piece.

[@TogomataYuto]

This man is a gem. Protect him at all cost.

[@latte2096]

I just bought a 3d printer. You're giving me a lot of ideas about what to print haha.

[@rockdalegaming8944]

The gigarackett will be the soprano in my new recorder/rackett consort.

[@ENOCH_FALLEN]

12:00 I'm gonna play this instrument. *PLAYS MOTORCYCLE*

[@GaryGP40]

@Richard your videos are always so much fun! I found myself wondering, as you did, where are you going to take this and that's an impressive outcome!! I can almost take a full breath in between each pulse on the G-2! 🤣I liked how you paired the contra (love the sound of the contra) with the GigaRackett. It's always great fun to watch and learn from your videos! Plus, I don't think I have ever (nor probably will ever again) see an F clef sub-22. That's a riot. I think one could climb to the bottom of the Marianas trench with all those ledger lines!! Thanks, as always, RIchard!

[@ivansantrizos8483]

There are 2 organ stops in the world that play this low, the 64' Trombone in Sydney Town Hall, and the Atlantic city boardwalk hall. I love projects like these, but in terms of creating discernable melodies, instruments as low of these, I fear are not much more than a waste of air. I've never heard any organist or organ builder compliment the 64' stops anywhere in the world. Maybe we'll be the generation that changes the world's perception of these colors and inaudible frequencies, and gets people to enjoy the unique color these frequencies/registers/instruments can add to an ensemble, or play solo:)

[@FRobot-rx4kz]

Thus is amazing. I'd love to know more about the construction of the (playing) reeds on this beast of an instruments

[@brassman5]

Beautiful tone.

[@thehilt7223]

I want to make one of these, bring it to band class and put it in the percussion section and just see the confusion

[@cadenreinhart3779]

So, out of curiosity, what does it feel like to play that thing?

[@MasonCookMrFamous]

Admittedly I would be down to write music for GigaRackett. If you were to refine the model with keys and such it would add further depth to ensembles.

[@davidianmusic4869]

You invented the double reed metronome. Incredible.

[@wey136]

Can we have the composition for monster thing and contrabassoon on another video? I want them on my favorite playlist. :3 the physics theory involved on this video is mind blowing and awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@alangodin5244]

This video is absolutely fantastic

[@bluesman_oneyt4362]

Regarding bassoon extensions, if you make them down to A flat or G, the low B becomes mostly un-muffled

[@desynthed]

Quick question about the bassoon extensions, why is it that the differently shaped design allows the low B to sound much more clear?

[@jasckon7994]

Prof. Meek also has a giant reed in his office but it's made out of wood and could theoretically be played

[@Subcontrabassoon]

Who do you think gave Prof. Meek his GigaReed? :-)

[@swanson5014]

When is the estimated date where you could have a functioning Subcontrabassoon prototype?

[@deerfish3000]

It sounds like twanging one of those springy door stops! 😆

[@harczymarczy]

This is lower than the lowest C of the two real 64' organ stops of the world but it really feels more like a rhythm than a pitched sound.

[@chichiita3266]

Wait so if you can print a giant reed that works it'd be awesome to work out a way to print normal bassoon reeds and if they sound good they could become a good alternative to the reeds already for sale! :D

[@mason11198]

23:07 this sound is beautiful, wow

[@loghbrass]

Would unironically build one of these and walk up to my band director and just play a G-2 just to be that tuba player

[@nathanpillsbury2631]

You bring so much joy to my life!

[@calinguga]

beautiful work

[@SixteenVoice]

Thank you. Very technical and science oriented. Got my juices going. lol.

[@josephfiddes60]

I feel like the GigaRackett is a really good example of the difference, or lack thereof, between pitch and rhythm. When you play the G-2, it may technically be a G-2, but what I am really hearing is a group of sextuplet semi-quavers at crotchet = 60. The only thing that distinguishes the sound as a pitch as opposed to a rhythm is the upper harmonics, but if you isolate the fundamental, is it a pitch - or a rhythm? It's interesting how pitch and rhythm are one and the same when you zoom in far enough on the seismograph.

[@instralikesoranges1659]

You should buy felt, make keys using the 3d printer, make keys with pads and attached them to the GigaRackett

[@bassclarineteffects-carlki9219]

amazing work. the piece at the end is great!

[@williammurdoch626]

For the follow up, is there any way you can release dimensions or plans for the GigaRacket?

[@plazasta]

instead of using your mouth and lungs (that instrument seems so large no human could possibly make a note that lasts more than two seconds before running out of breath and taking the next two seconds to just breathe), can you use an air pump that would be more suitable to play this? Like the Boardwalk Hall Organ's 100' blowers?

[@francissadleir9805]

Haha why did you take the time to engrave this properly? Don't think I didn't notice your attention to detail at measure 14 with the tie colliding with the time signature. Great video man!

[@victorruiz7288]

Any chance for plans or at least the lengths of the pipes you used for each note? I would really love to make this. As a double bassist and organist, I am always looking for instruments that play very low notes lol

[@skyrimbonehawk8541]

I as a brass player have no clue what it feels like to play double reeds. What do you describe the feeling and how you play as?

[@instralikesoranges1659]

your lips vibrate when you play lower notes

[@hunteralexander9791]

It’s like playing a brass instrument but all of the vibration is felt through a cane barrier

[@skyrimbonehawk8541]

@@hunteralexander9791 ah. I tried an oboe but couldn't make a sound

[@owensiegel4452]

Depending on the reed when you play really low notes it kinda of feels like an electric toothbrush

[@DietterichLabs]

What math do you use to calculate where the tone holes go?

[@j1mb0J]

could you make a template for the gigareed (playable version), I feel like many people would have fun making their own instruments out of that monstrosity.

[@maxstewart1374]

This is awesome! I want one Edit: I really want the low a extensions

[@Subcontrabassoon]

I'm working on getting the print quality consistent enough to sell the low A extensions (or at least the bulbous one; the conical version is easy enough to make out of cardboard)

[@maxstewart1374]

Richard Bobo I usually use either a piece of pvc or round out a piece of construction paper but thanks!

[@EddieChung]

Richard Bobo Yes I’m also interested!

[@yfructose]

Me three!

[@davidcote726]

Richard I'm in the market for one of your fully functional 3D printed giga reeds, would you ever consider selling one? I build large monstrosity PVC horns over 18 feet long with a 12-in bell playing as a didgeridoo and with a baritone saxophone mouthpiece but I'm wanting to branch out into double reeds.

[@sifridbassoon]

Haven't thought this through, but do you think I could easily 3D print reeds for various early music double reed instruments (cornamuse, crumhorn, racket, dulcian...)? There is little information about creating them using actual bamboo, and the ones available to buy are frighteningly expensive.

[@onegreenghost3351]

Any meme videos you can do with this monster? And does it hurt when you play in that low range?

[@somerandomdragon558]

Brown note.

[@cobalt._.27]

Some Random Dragon Y E A H

[@adamschmidt546]

I was thinking when I was watching this video, and I think it'd be fairly easy to print out keywork and make some simple pads for the GigaRackett. If I could just make it slightly wider and the pipes closer together it'd be a lot easier too. Also I'm really getting into the kind of stuff you're doing and would like to see your models. Like the functioning SubContraBassoon Reed. Did you print the one you used or did you make it out of something? Things like that. Thank you for your time

[@sabrinabushman6570]

How would you go about making one of these “GigaRackett”s

[@xander1052]

I'm interested too

[@confuseatronica]

i was hoping for an UltraSerpent personally. But the rackett is smarter

[@RosssRoyce]

Those notes frequencies enter the spectrum of VLF used for triggering earth quakes and for mind control of mass populations projects ;P

[@cliveso]

Jesus, that's a vigesimaseconda bassa bass clef.

[@mason11198]

You say it's a joke but I'd sincerely write for this!

[@mason11198]

AND THE LAST NOTE, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY, WAS AMAZING!!!! AAAHHHHH!!! I NEEED ITT!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RosssRoyce]

Thanks for sharing, Richard! I think of getting a 3d printer in order to make a cornetto. Do you think that with choosing the right filament i can get a dense enough finishing (with adding coats of some resin i guess...?) that would sound shitty and raspy? Do these layers separate when man bends them? BTW for my bagpipes and bombarde i make pretty decent reeds out of acetate transparencies, diligently and finely sanded of course, also out of yogurt containers. Completely oblivious to humidity!

[@iamawesome2_3435]

I've wanted to see a woodwind instrument that plays this low.

[@splodinatekabloominate846]

The lungs that must take

[@theJonnymac]

If you pipe the sound into one of those flame tubes, and measure it, its going to be 57m long, but you'll know

[@marydoob]

Did someone suggest “ flight of the bumblebee”?

[@LordFloofTM]

Imagine marching with this thing

[@leotard2536]

There's a dude named Tims Storms who claims he can sing a G-7 (0.189Hz, or one cycle every 5.39 seconds). This is the official record for lowest note sung, yet there is no recording. So if you aren't even sure about your G-2 being 6Hz without a seismologist, how the hell did they determine the G-7 is pitch-accurate?

[@MonsieurMaskedMan]

Yeah i am kinda skeptical of that shit, until someone can record a G-7 than i am officially blown away

[@9uweeoncbmd890]

I felt strongly out of breath just out of watching you play those notes.

[@DashGlitch]

"I think we can agree this is a joke instrument" NO NO NO!!

[@stuarthough9909]

GigaReed is a teaching aid, like the 3D print GigaReed.

[@vyvianspipes]

This is just like the 64’ Diaphone rank on Boardwalk Hall’s organ! 😲

[@peteahdbahahah1359]

Could you make this but with a slide instead? that would be interesting.

[@raykent3211]

That's quite easy! Take a length of plastic tube, wipe à thin coat of petroleum jelly onto it . Now wrap a large sheet of paper around it tightly and after the first turn generously apply white glue so the later turns of paper stick to each other. About 6 turns may do. I put a soprano sax mouthpiece on mine, sealing the join with plasticine. The paper tube should slide snugly along the tube. Some people have made small pipe organs with rolled paper pipes. They sound sweet!

[@kendalm550]

This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous and I love it

[@UpupBinweevils]

It’s basically a subwoofer

[@downto2538]

Can you please make a video telling us how to make a gigaracket, also can you publish the 3d models for the playing gigareed so I can make my own

[@Rippertear]

I've been looking into getting my own subcontrabass instrument, actually, but have been concerned about my lack of experience- how difficult are they to play, compared to an ordinary woodwind?

[@Subcontrabassoon]

If you mean a woodwind with "subcontrabass" in the name, the limiting factor is money. I've personally never played subcontrabass flute or sax, so I can't really give any advice there. If you mean a woodwind that plays in the subcontrabass register, then you're currently limited to building it yourself. The subcontrabassoon (which was designed as a real instrument) isn't actually that hard to play. The gigarackett is a joke instrument (built as an afterthought based on a massively scaled-up bassoon reed) and is nearly unplayable.

[@Rippertear]

@@Subcontrabassoon All right, thank you. I'm mostly interested in the idea of a subcontrabass-register woodwind, more as an infrasound generator than as an instrument, such as your gigarackett. I'm curious as to what it's like to feel sound, as well as some of the psychoacoustic effects I've heard of certain infrasound frequencies. If blowing hard enough for it to be audible isn't a priority, would it be less difficult of an 'instrument' to play?

[@Subcontrabassoon]

​@@Rippertear If you want to "feel" infrasound, your best bet is probably speakers and digital tone synthesis. Acoustic instruments have many audible overtones obscuring any infrasound effect. Plus, most of what you "feel" is going to be mechanical effects of producing a sound on a woodwind (such as the physical motion of the vibrating reed). The closest to what you're describing that I've experienced are the lowest notes of the gigarackett played softly; the soft dyanmic suppresses the upper harmonics, and the lower harmonics are either inaudible or barely audible. But it mostly just feels like playing a woodwind while wearing heavy-duty hearing protection, rather than any sort of special infrasound feeling.

[@Rippertear]

@@Subcontrabassoon hmm, all right. See, I had heard that you could physically feel infrasound in your body, similarly to how you can physically feel lower notes vibrate in your chest at a loud concert. Oh well.

[@Subcontrabassoon]

@@Rippertear You can feel infrasound. But, no acoustic woodwind I've made is an efficient generator of infrasound. Practically speaking, there wouldn't be much point to designing a woodwind for that purpose, since I don't believe a woodwind is capable of pumping out the decibels necessary to really "feel" infrasound.

[@Chompchompyerded]

LOL! G-1! You can almost count the cycles per second. I can only imagine what the lowest note is going to sound like. Maybe 3 cycles per second? So. My fine sir, what you have invented is a bass flatulence machine! You can pass lower gas than any pair of cheeks slapping together could ever make. I absolutely love it! I'm half tempted to write a piece for it. BTW, ever consider capping a giant reed like that and making a sub-double base krumhorn? That would be just the ultimate! Do the cops ever call and tell you to fix your muffler? If so, this could be why. Oh good god! That lowest note abused my subwoofer. I could feel it more than hear it. I have a feeling that the duo for Contrabasoon and Giga-racket would probably be better live. Actually, what am I talking about?! All performances are better live than recorded. Doesn't matter how good your stereo equipment is. There's nothing like live. One day I'm going to take a bottle of eclare blanc (white lightning) and get thoroughly plowed, then listen to this. I'll write a review of it at that point. I wish I had the proper video equipment and software, because then I'd make a KZbin drunken music review video of it. Now we're getting creative!

[@taylormanning2709]

6.125 Hz literally slaps

[@joshstamps6718]

You could probably make some sweet dubstep with this thing

[@rockdalegaming8944]

Forget the subcontra, Richard. The Gigarackett is the revolution.

[@Subcontrabassoon]

There can be multiple revolutions! :-)

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

If you can 3d print a giga reed and just touch it up a little you can probably print a normal contrabassoon reed lmao

[@Guuzaka]

When you play so low that your head trembles! 😬

[@tsraikage]

so from flat tire to V8 exhaust to door knock

[@Ell0_sTadium66]

now make a hyperpiccolo gigarackett

[@mal2ksc]

I know it has been debunked, but if anyone is going to find the elusive Brown Note, it's you.

[@Sasha-sd8ne]

I said make subcontrabassoon videos. Now I will invent the hyperoctosubcontrabassoon!!!

[@asterl-b4772]

Can you make an instrument down to C-4 (1 Hz)?

[@maxstewart1374]

Are those subcontrabassoon keywork prints functional?

[@Subcontrabassoon]

No. They are solid on the inside and the keywork is static.

[@aidmuslims8150]

First time we hear the GigaRackett @ 12:00

[@RenaissanceMan929]

OMG, ROTFLMAO, I L O V E this video!!!!

[@HernanPelegri]

Maestro!!

[@nomore0978]

wow! so crazy!!

[@NeilABliss]

Maybe a mega racket would be a better idea.

[@asterl-b4772]

what's the total length of the tube of the gigarackett?

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Sounds like Haskelling.