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Heckelphone

Definition: Heckelphone

Heckelphone

Noun

1. A oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Heckelphone

Synonym: basset oboe (n). (additional references)

Specialty Definition: Heckelphone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The heckelphone was a musical instrument invented by Wilhelm Heckel and introduced in the late 19th century. It is similar to a oboe but with a wider bore and a deeper sound. Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salome calls for a heckelphone.

See also: Piccolo heckelphone, List of musical instruments

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heckelphone."

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heckelphone

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
heckelphone	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Heckelphone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-h-k-l-n-o-p"
	-3 letters: kneehole.
	-4 letters: echelon, henpeck, penoche.
	-5 letters: heckle, holpen, pencel, phenol, plench.
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Alternative Orthography: Heckelphone

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 63 6B 65 6C 70 68 6F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01101100 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#108 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0063 006B 0065 006C 0070 0068 006F 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4271697771788274818071

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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