Hear incredibly low tones of world's largest saxophone as musician plays Titanic theme
The world’s largest saxophone makes a booming noise so low that people have compared it to the horn a ship sounds when it’s sinking.
The mammoth musical instrument has a tube length of 6.745 m (22 ft 1.55 in) and a bell diameter of 39.1 cm (1 ft 3.39 in).
It stands 2.74 m (8 ft 11.87 in) tall, weighs 28.6 kg (63.05 lb) and has an estimated internal air volume of 0.27 m³ (9.53 ft³).
The sax is taller than Robert Wadlow, the tallest man ever, who was 8 ft 11 in tall.
Featured within the pages of Guinness World Records 2026, the superlative sax was created by Brazilian saxophone maker J'Elle Stainer for Gilberto Lopes of Below65-4hz.com (Italy) in 2013.
Because of the super low notes it plays, it’s considered a "sub contrabass". It has a tonal range from Bb (Ab0) to F# (E3) which in terms of frequency is 25.95 Hz to 164.8 Hz.
It’s a whole octave below a bass sax and four octaves below an alto sax. The sub contrabass saxophone was invented in 1846 by the Belgian musician and inventor Adolphe Sax, who called it "sax bourdon", but it took 167 years before the instrument was actually built.
Gilberto Lopes playing the largest saxophone
Italian saxophonist Daniele Vitale Sax posted clips of himself playing the record-breaking instrument in 2021, and his fans were blown away by its unique sound.
He played a number of well-known tunes, which obviously sounded pretty different to the way we’re used to hearing them.
One was Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, the theme tune from the movie Titanic.
“My favourite is Titanic,” the musician quipped in a comment underneath his YouTube video.
One of his fans commented: “LOL titanic sounded like the ship horns!”
“It sounds like me when my stomach's growling,” another wrote.
While a third joked: “As a sax player I desire the power to play the chonky sax boi [sic] more than anything”.
The largest saxophone was made to celebrate Sax’s 200th anniversary in 2014.
Read about the largest saxophone and many more amazing records in Guinness World Records 2026 – get your copy now.