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| - | '''The odd side of the wind instruments'''
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| - | There are [[wind instruments]] you see and hear all the time... and there are ones you don't. The [[Odd instruments|odd]] ones.
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| - | Some instruments are born to oddness, while others have oddness thrust upon them. But there's a more useful way to [[Odd instrument categories|categorize]] oddness.
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| - | And there are ways to [[Hornbostel-Sachs classification|classify]] instruments, too.
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| - | There are [[near-odd instruments|near-odd wind instruments]], too, of which there's some discussion here; and odd string and percussion instruments, of which there isn't.
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| - | ==Odd instruments and instrument families==
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| - | * [[Cimbasso]]
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| - | * [[Contrabasse a anche|Contrabasse à anche]]
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| - | * [[Heckelphone]]
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| - | * [[Keyed bugle]] (including ophicleide)
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| - | * [[Normaphon]] (including jazzophon)
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| - | * [[Octavin]]
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| - | * [[Rothphone]]
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| - | * [[Sarrusophone]]
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| - | * [[Saxhorn]]
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| - | * [[Tarogato]]
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| - | * [[Tubax]]
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| - | ==Near-odd instruments and instrument families==
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| - | * [[Chalumeau]]
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| - | * [[Serpent]]
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| - | ==Mundane instruments and instrument families==
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| - | '''(with odd members and instances)'''
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| - | * [[Bassoon]]
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| - | * [[Clarinet]]
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| - | * [[Cornet]]
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| - | * [[Flugelhorn]]
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| - | * [[Fipple flutes]]
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| - | * [[Flute]]
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| - | * [[Horn]]
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| - | * [[Oboe]] (including English horn)
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| - | * [[Saxophone]]
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| - | * [[Trombone]]
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| - | * [[Trumpet]]
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| - | * [[Tuba]] (including euphonium and sousaphone)
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| - | ==[[Oddbands]]==
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| - | ==Miscellaneous links==
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| - | * [http://www.contrabass.com/ Contrabass Mania] -- A web site devoted (mainly) to below-the-bass-clef instruments, most of which are odd. Some non-contrabass odd instruments creep in here and there.
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| - | * [http://www.horncollector.com horncollector.com] -- Eric Totman's Past & Present Brass Wind Instrument Collection. Lots of pictures of bizarre things.
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| - | * [http://www.oddmusic.com/ Oddmusic.com]
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| - | ==Books==
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| - | * This sounds like a great one for oddwinds fans -- especially ones who read German: "DULLAT, Guenter: Fast vergessene Blasinstrumente aus zwei Jahrhunderten; Vom Albisiphon zur Zugtrompete". ([http://www.google.com/language_tools Google Language Tools] translates this as "Nearly forgotten wind instruments from two centuries; From the Albisiphon to the course trumpet".) According to a couple of posts to the Contrabass mailing list (archived [http://www.contrabass.com/contra-archive/contra16.html here] and [http://www.contrabass.com/contra-archive/contra17.html here]), "This book has a photograph or patent drawing on every right-hand page with details, bibliography, notes, etc. on each left hand page" and it covers "Albisiphon; Antilopenhorn; Balladhorn; Baroxyton; Bassalt; Bassetthorn; Bass - Euphonium; Bathyphon; Bimbonifono; Bombardon; Buccin; Chromatic Basshorn; Clarina; Clavicor; Contrabassophon; Cornophon; Duetton; Echocornet; English Basshorn; Fagottserpent; English Flageolets; Giorgi Flutes; Glicibarifono; Harmonic Trumpet; Heckelphonklarinette; Helicon and Herculesophon; Hibernicon; Jazzophon; Keyed Bugle & Keyed Trumpet; Klaviaturklarinette; Klaviaturkontrafagott; Melonie; Muellerphon; Musettenbass; Neophon; Oktavin; Omnitonic Horns; Ophibariton (Serpent Bassoon); Ophicleide; Orpheon; Pelittone; Phonikon; Rohrkontrabass (Contrabass ad Ancia); Rothphone; Russian Bassoon; Russian Horns; Sarrusophone; Saxhorns; Saxtrombas & Saxtubas; Schediphon; Swanneckclarinet; Sechszehnfuessiger Orgelbass; Serpent; Serpent droit; Serpent Forveille; Sonorophon; Walkingstickinstruments; Stopped Trumpet; Sudrophone; Tarogato; Tritinikon; Tuba-Dupre; Valved Ophicleide; Quarter-tone clarinet; Violoncel-Serpent; Slide Trumpet."
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