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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 ...
Hughes became professor of ophicleide at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall and at the Guildhall School of Music. He died in poverty in 1898 in Reading, Berkshire, England. The ophicleide died with him. His widow received a small grant for his burial from the Royal Society of Musicians. His instrument is on display in the ...
Clifford James "Cliff" Bevan (1934 – 2024) was an English tubist, trombonist, organologist, music historian, composer and publisher. [1] He specialised in historically informed performance, including historical low brass instruments such as the ophicleide, cimbasso and serpent.
The Grand Ophicleide in the Boardwalk Hall Organ, Atlantic City, New Jersey, is recognized as the loudest organ stop in the world, voiced on 100" wind pressure (0.25 bar). [1] Its tone is described by Guinness World Records as having "a pure trumpet note of ear-splitting volume, more than six times the volume of the loudest locomotive whistle."
Instrument manufacturer Col. Charles G. Conn wrote to Perfetto "Of all the musicians who have used my instruments in the past, I have regarded you as the squarest and best". [11] [12] Alfred James Phasey: 1834-1888 accomplished player of the euphonium, ophicleide and other brass instruments. He is credited with widening the bore of the ...
Jean Prosper Guivier was born in Antakalnis, a district in Vilnius, Lithuania, the son of Etienne Simon Guivier (6 March 1780 – 1 October 1829), a Napoleonic soldier of the 106 e régiment d'Infanterie de ligne (106th Line Infantry Regiment) [1] and Hélène or Marie-Hélène Odino or Odinot (5 March 1786 – 30 July 1857).
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Jean Hilaire Asté (1775–1840), also known as Halary or Halari, was a French professor of music and instrument-maker. [1] Among the other instruments he patented, he is best known for inventing the ophicleide of which, it has been claimed, only five originals remain. [citation needed]