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Description: | The ophicleide, which literally means serpent with keys, was developed as a replacement for the serpent. It became a popular orchestral instrument. In his treatise on instrumentation of 1844 Hector Berlioz noted how effective it could be within the brass section. Berlioz incorporated the Dies irae ('day of wrath'), a chant from the Mass for the Dead in his Symphonie fantastique (1830). Originally scored for ophicleide, it is now usually played on the instrument which superceded it - the tuba.
Ophicleide in C, brass, heavily lacquered. Eleven keys. Crook with two U bends, with swan-neck mouth-pipe close to stay. Brass mouthpiece with silver rim probably original. Crook has been repaired roughly at tuning-slide socket. Stamped with GA monogram.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 14.5.47_106.
caption: Frontal view of object no. 14.5.47/106. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | 423.213 Labrosones with fingerholes with (wider) conical bore metal silver ophicleides brass leather copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12786 | Go to resource |
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