How To Use heckelphone In A Sentence
- For a while last year they had a heckelphone on their second-hand list for a little over £20 000.
- A bass or baritone oboe, an octave below the treble, has always been rare, though composers do occasionally write for it and the wider-bore but otherwise similar heckelphone.
- Is that the antique twang of an epigonion, or the sweet trill of the piccolo heckelphone? Times, Sunday Times
- The demand for heckelphones is not high…
- Other unusual instruments such as guitars, saxophones, bass flutes, heckelphones, Wagner tubas, and so on may be used as well, depending upon the music
- Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
- Casts and orchestras are kept small: no heckelphones or Wagner tubas in his scoring.
- The heckelphone was developed in response to Richard Wagner's request when he visited the Heckel factory, a German bassoon manufacturer, in the late nineteenth century.
- As an oboist, he has performed orchestral, chamber and contemporary music; he also plays the heckelphone.
- For example, the heckelphone part in his Alpine Symphony descends to F, four notes lower than the range of any heckelphone ever built!
