Sub-bass recorder

The sub-bass recorder is a recorder with the range C − d ¹ (g ¹ )

It is produced in a kinked and square design. Thanks to this special and legally protected design, the instrument can be played with a very short blowing pipe.

The sub-bass recorder was developed by Herbert Paetzold in Ebenhofen. Today this size recorder is manufactured and sold by the Kunath Instrumentenbau workshop under the brand name “Paetzold by Kunath”.

Other recorder types

• Garklein recorder in c ³
• Sopranino recorder in f ² (Italian also flautino )
• Soprano recorder in c ² (also called fifth flute)
• Alto recorder in f ¹
• Tenor recorder in c ¹
• Bass recorder in f
• Great bass recorder in c
• Double bass recorder in F.
• Sub double bass recorder in F ₁

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Music in the past and present , Bärenreiter, Kassel 1955, ISBN 3-7618-5913-9 , p. 339 ff.