The Octobass; an instrument 2 octaves below the cello, in the Bass clef 15mb.
Reported version
3.x-dev
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
1) Strong description of the octobass: Plays 2 octaves below cello, designed to produce a strong, rumbling sound to the depth of an orchestra, made for mood and for a stormy mood. Octobass is a stringed, instrument that is bowed.
Expectations: If fixed, people can have a moody behavior in the string orchestra.
Fix version
3.5.0
Comments
what range exactly, highest and lowest pitch, amateur and professional range?
In reply to what raneg exactly, highest… by Jojo-Schmitz
There is no highest pitch, but the lowest pitch is A0 or down to 16hz
In reply to There is no highest pitch,… by HaHaOpera
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobass it is said that Berlioz used G2 as the top pitch of the instrument. It also says the bottom range is C0.
For the octobass at MIM in Pheonix AZ, the range would be C0 - A1
It is correct to call it a thirty-two-foot instrument; although it is not quite that tall, an open organ pipe sounding that pitch is indeed that tall. Harpsichord stops as well as organ stops are designated in this way; the contrabass is a "16'" instrument. The goal of the octobass was to bring that organ-associated sound to the orchestra. C0 (16 Hz) is below human hearing (but, of course, can be felt, and its harmonics heard implying it). It was almost surely for this reason, and the abundance of 32' organ stops in the world, that this pitch was chosen as 0 in C0 etc. Feet*Hz = 512, half the speed of sound in ft/sec.
The pitches mentioned hare are assuming C4 being middle C? Or C5, in which case the C0 mentioned here would rather be a C-1?
Does the attached cover the ranges properly?
Any particular genre this instrument might belong to? Just "orchestra"?
In reply to The pitches mentioned hare… by Jojo-Schmitz
C4 is middle C, C3 is tenor C, the pitch of a 4' (open) pipe. C2 is C below the clef, the pitch of 8' pipe, the lowest note pf a cello. C1 is an octave below that, the lowest note of an extended contrabass, the pitch of a 16' pipe, C0 is an octave below that, the pitch of a 32' pipe.
So my assumption where right.
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5778
Sure not a regression...
There are some 64' pedal reeds in the world -- Atlantic City and one of the Australian metropoles when I was a child, but there might be more now. While 64' is not an effect called for or known by any known organ composer, 32' is certainly called for by 19th century and later music, but only available on large organs. Movies, etc., have need for thunder machines, and the "diaphone" invented by radical organ buider Robert Hope-Jones actually found further use in real nautical foghorns (look up the term). The frequency of the lowest note of a 64' stop is 8 Hz, which is the rate of 32d notes at quarter=60. Soft 32' sound (called for at end of Franck B minor "chorale") is a deeply magical effect.
Not quite sure how this relates to the issue at hand here?
In reply to Not quite sure how this… by Jojo-Schmitz
I just thought it'd be interesting in a discussion of the relevance of 32' sounds.
OK, got it.
Fixed in branch master, commit f84c64d6c9
_fix #283111: Add octobass
and add some comments to the bowed instruments reg. their sound.
Revealed a wrong pizzicato sound for Baryton (dulcimer), corrected in
the due course_
Fixed in branch master, commit 1e8328fdfc
_Merge pull request #5778 from Jojo-Schmitz/octobass
fix #283111: Add octobass_
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.