Posted by Ben Palmer on April 14, 1999 at 03:43:22:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Helicon Restoration posted by Ben Palmer on April 14, 1999 at 03:27:42:
Contraserpent:
Origin
Jean-Baptiste Coeffet
Date
circa 1830
Description
"The barbarian, yes barbarian sound of
[the serpent] ought to have been used at
the Druids's bloody masses," remarked
Hector Berlioz, who included the
instrument in the Dies Irae section of his
celebrated "Symphonie Phantastique".
In the decades before the bass tuba was
invented large horns were built in a
number of forms to play very low parts.
The more bizarre serpent models tended
to be of an undulating snake. Due to its
unwieldiness and an uneven register the
contraserpent was seldom used.
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