How To Use Heckelphone In A Sentence
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For a while last year they had a heckelphone on their second-hand list for a little over £20 000.
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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.
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Is that the antique twang of an epigonion, or the sweet trill of the piccolo heckelphone?
Times, Sunday Times
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The demand for heckelphones is not high…
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Other unusual instruments such as guitars, saxophones, bass flutes, heckelphones, Wagner tubas, and so on may be used as well, depending upon the music
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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.
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Casts and orchestras are kept small: no heckelphones or Wagner tubas in his scoring.
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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.
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As an oboist, he has performed orchestral, chamber and contemporary music; he also plays the heckelphone.
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For example, the heckelphone part in his Alpine Symphony descends to F, four notes lower than the range of any heckelphone ever built!
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It is thought that there are less than 100 heckelphones in the world.
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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.
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Perhaps also the bass-oboe or heckelphone come into this way of thinking, although some solo and chamber works for these instruments are coming to be known.