Ophicleide

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A keyed brass instrument of the bugle family with a baritone range that was the structural precursor of the bass saxophone and was replaced by the tuba in orchestras.
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  • n. A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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. It developed from the older wooden instrument called the serpent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A metal musical wind-instrument, invented about 1790, having a large tube of conical bore, bent double, with a cupped mouthpiece.
  • n. In organ-building, a powerful reed stop with a trumpet-like tone.
    • Word Usage
    "The wooden serpent has gone out of use in military bands within recollection, the ophicleide from orchestras only recently."
    Antonym
    serpent   
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