Oddwinds
From Oddwinds
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 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
- Cimbasso
- Contrabasse à anche
- Heckelphone
- Keyed bugle (including ophicleide)
- Normaphon (including jazzophon)
- Octavin
- Rothphone
- Sarrusophone
- Saxhorn
- Tarogato
- Tubax
Near-odd instruments and instrument families
Mundane instruments and instrument families
(with odd members and instances)
- Bassoon
- Clarinet
- Cornet
- Flugelhorn
- Fipple flutes
- Flute
- Horn
- Oboe (including English horn)
- Saxophone
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba (including euphonium and sousaphone)
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". (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 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."
