heckelphonen.
/ˈhɛkəlfəʊn/ A baritone oboe.
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1905 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 8/2 A new instrument, called appropriately the ‘Heckelphon’, answered from the orchestra.
1914 C. Forsyth Orchestration 228 Strauss has made use of the Heckelphon in..Salome.
1940 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique (ed. 2) i. 3 Some very fully scored modern symphonic and operatic works employ quadruple woodwind, such exotics as the bass flute and heckelphone sometimes being added to the flute and oboe group respectively.
1966 Guardian 22 Apr. 12/5 A heckelphone (a kind of outsize ‘baritone’ oboe).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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