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One of the last great ophicleide players was the English musician Sam Hughes. There have been claims that the instrument was a direct ancestor of the saxophone: supposedly Adolphe Sax, while repairing an ophicleide, put a woodwind mouthpiece on the instrument and liked the sound, allegedly leading Sax to design and create a purpose-built ...
[19] [17] Its use of keys, progressively larger tone holes, and an open top tone hole make it essentially a serpent-shaped contrabass ophicleide. [20] During the serpent's modern revival, two more contrabass serpents were built in the original serpent ordinaire form in the 1990s by Christopher Monk's workshop, by doubling the pattern for a bass ...
He was instrumental in the 20th century rediscovery of the serpent and ophicleide, playing with Christopher Monk's London Serpent Trio, and performing an ophicleide recital at the London Horniman Museum in 1990 which was likely the first full-length recital in the instrument's modern revival. [1]
Print/export Download as PDF; ... serpent, ophicleide, ... A later "full double" design has completely separate valve section tubing for the two sides, and is ...
A chorus reed simulating the trombone; most commonly in the pedal at 16 ft or 32 ft pitch; similar tone as Bombarde or Ophicleide. Trompette en Chamade (French) Horizontal Trumpet (English) Reed: A solo trumpet laid horizontally; can often be heard over full organ. Trompette Militaire (French) Field Trumpet (English) Military Trumpet (English) Reed
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It was a keyed instrument (unlike the serpent), but without valves (unlike the euphonium). Hughes began his career playing the ophicleide in one of the newly popular brass bands, the Cyfarthfa Brass Band in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He played with the band from the mid-1850s to about 1860.
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