Not everybody knows this, but most musical instruments have an alternative version of them for the different edges of the musical range. All together they make up a family. For example, the violin and the cello are different pitched musical instruments of the same family - the bow instruments. They look the same and share similar anatomy, but their musical range is completely different.
As a rule, the larger the instrument, the lower its pitch, and it will usually be named bass or contrabass. For example, a bass guitar as opposed to just a guitar. The same works in the opposite direction: the smaller the size, the higher the pitch and the instrument will usually be called soprano.
Here are some absurdly large contrabass wind instruments, and an unusually small one.
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