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'''The odd side of the wind instruments'''
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There are [[Wind Instruments|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 odd string and percussion instruments, but not here.
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==Odd Instruments and Instrument Families==
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* [[Cimbasso]]
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* [[Heckelphone]]
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* [[Keyed Bugle|Keyed bugle]] (including ophicleide)
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* [[Normaphon]] (including jazzophon)
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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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==Mundane Instruments and Instrument Families==
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'''(with odd members and instances)'''
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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". 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."

Revision as of 20:11, 12 September 2006

The odd side of the wind instruments


There are wind instruments you see and hear all the time... and there are ones you don't. The odd ones.

Some instruments are born to oddness, while others have oddness thrust upon them. But there's a more useful way to categorize oddness.

And there are ways to classify instruments, too.

There are odd string and percussion instruments, but not here.

Contents

Odd Instruments and Instrument Families

Mundane Instruments and Instrument Families

(with odd members and instances)

Oddbands

Miscellaneous Links

  • 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.
  • horncollector.com -- Eric Totman's Past & Present Brass Wind Instrument Collection. Lots of pictures of bizarre things.
  • Oddmusic.com

Books

  • 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". According to a couple of posts to the Contrabass mailing list (archived here and 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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