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Definition: OPHICLEIDE |
OPHICLEIDENoun1. A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas. |
Date "OPHICLEIDE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name ophicleide means "keyed serpent", and in fact the ophicleide was developed as an improvement over the serpent. The serpent is difficult to play and has a soft timbre. Its tone holes are arranged essentially where one can reach them, rather than where they have the best effect acoustically. Hallary revised the entire concept, making the bore of metal (rather than the serpent's wood), positioning 9 tone holes in approximately correct locations, and covering the large holes with padded keys. Additional keys were added later to improve particular notes. However, the keys are not arranged to make sense to woodwind players: keys reach from the tone hole to the nearest finger (or thumb). Learning the fingerings is more like learning valve combinations.
The ophicleide was made in a variety of sizes, from the alto size (quinticlave) in Eb and F, and the bass in C and Bb, to the rare contrabass in Eb. The size most often found today is the bass, having a range corresponding roughly to the bassoon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ophicleide."
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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| Language | Translations for "OPHICLEIDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | oficleid. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-i-l-o-p" | |
-2 letters: cheliped, helicoid. | |
-3 letters: cepheid, cheloid, delphic, diploic, eidolic, pedicel, pedicle, policed. | |
-4 letters: ceiled, chield, childe, cleped, coiled, copied, decile, diploe, dipole, docile, echoed, eloped, heiled, helped, leched, lichee, lipide, lipoid, peched, pieced, police. | |
-5 letters: cheep, chide, chiel, child, chile, chili, clepe, coled, coped, deice, dhole, dolce, dolci, eched, edile, elide, elope, ephod, epoch, epode. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-i-i-l-o-p" | |
+3 letters: cephaloridine. | |
+4 letters: cephaloridines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 50 48 49 43 4C 45 49 44 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010000 01001000 01001001 01000011 01001100 01000101 01001001 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O P H I C L E I D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0050 0048 0049 0043 004C 0045 0049 0044 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49504243374639433839 |
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