Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Ophicleide
- Instrument.image
- Ophicleide instruments, bass alto and soprano.png
- Instrument.caption
- Ophicleides: bass (the most common), alto (quinticlave) and soprano (rare). Rijksmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Instrument.background
- brass
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 423.21
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- aerophone sounded by lip vibration with keys
- Instrument.developed
- 19th century
- Instrument.range
- { \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } \clef bass \key c \major \cadenzaOn b,,1 \glissando c''1 } Range of bass ophicleide in C
- Instrument.builders
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Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- France
- Image
- Basophicleïde, BK-NM-11430-46.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Ophicleides
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 423.21
- time of discovery or invention
- 1821-00-00
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