Meaning & use
Heckelphone
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A large, deep-toned double-reed woodwind instrument, essentially a baritone oboe.
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The orchestra rarely uses a heckelphone, but it appears memorably in Strauss's opera Salome.
The music student was fascinated to learn the heckelphone was invented at Richard Wagner's suggestion.
A note on using this word
Named after Wilhelm Heckel, the German instrument maker who developed it in 1904.
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bass oboe
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