ophicleide
a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
Origin of ophicleide
1Other words from ophicleide
- oph·i·clei·de·an, adjective
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How to use ophicleide in a sentence
ophicleide, of′i-klīd, n. a large bass trumpet, with a deep pitch.
"Like an ophicleide," said Gerfaut, who could not help laughing at the importance the artist attached to his display of talent.
Gerfaut, Complete | Charles de BernardThe application of keys to the bugle produced the Kent bugle, and later the ophicleide.
Those which give out the fundamental tone and harmonics up to the eighth, such as the tubas and ophicleide.
In the ophicleide, the bass of the key-bugle, the bore is sufficiently wide to produce the fundamentals of a satisfactory quality.
British Dictionary definitions for ophicleide
/ (ˈɒfɪˌklaɪd) /
music an obsolete keyed wind instrument of bass pitch
Origin of ophicleide
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