The Washington Cathedral has an ophicleide stop; the Central Synagogue in New York has one labeled "shofar.". From Wordnik.com. [In Washington for convention, organists pull out all the stops] Reference
The wooden serpent has gone out of use in military bands within recollection, the ophicleide from orchestras only recently. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
"Like an ophicleide," said Gerfaut, who could not help laughing at the importance the artist attached to his display of talent. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the ophicleide, the bass of the key-bugle, the bore is sufficiently wide to produce the fundamentals of a satisfactory quality. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Mr. Barmby, in a voice all ophicleide, remark: 'No, I carry no instrument.'. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Neither saxophone nor ophicleide was necessary for him to fill the soul with awe. From Wordnik.com. [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference
The shrieks and groans of that brutal ophicleide would have penetrated the walls of the Tower of London. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference
He made a point of taking his constitutional during the hour made hideous by the ill-starred aspirant on the ophicleide. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference
She was amused to transports at the station, on hearing Mr. Barmby, in a voice all ophicleide, remark: 'No, I carry no instrument.'. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Inns. In the last century many a foolish fellow was 'put up' at ten paces, because he refused to lay down an ophicleide; even as late as. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
By the time the last wail of the ophicleide had wriggled away into silence it was getting late, and the college was meditating retirement to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference
They were the trombone and ophicleide players from the orchestra, and the "Miss Grace," of act first, disguised as a bad character, in a cloak, with a red pocket-handkerchief over her head. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
At that moment a growl, resembling the deepest tones of an ophicleide, resounded from the throat of the jaguar, rolling over the surface of the water to the ears of the men seated in the canoe. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger Hunter] Reference
From the afternoon until a late hour of night the band performs industriously in a gallery high over head; and each musician removes the ophicleide or flute from his lips only to refresh them with a mug of lager beer. From Wordnik.com. [Lager Beer in New York] Reference
Singular as was this feat, it was far less so than a young man's performance of the ophicleide, a serpentine instrument that coiled round and about its player, and when breathed into persuasively gave forth prodigious brassy sounds that resembled the night-noises of beasts of prey. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
'spirit-stirring drum' -- to say nothing of gong and ophicleide. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
A wretch calling himself a man, in a neighbouring apartment, began to practise on the ophicleide!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference
But I forgot that one may make too much noise in a silent place by playing the few notes on the 'ear-piercing fife' which in Othello's regimental band might have been thumped into decent subordination by his 'spirit-stirring drum' ” to say nothing of gong and ophicleide. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
A means of escape from a hard and selfish grandfather in his anecdotage, it had not taken her long to find out how poor was the laborious peasant brain, how narrow the intelligence, concealed by the solemn manners of the Academic laureate and manufacturer of octavos, and by his voice with its ophicleide notes adapted to the sublimities of the lecture room. From Wordnik.com. [The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877] Reference
You listen to my ophicleide!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Unasked, it looms -- that ophicleide. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892] Reference
When ophicleide and bombardon's uproar. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
& #160 While saxe-horn, trombone, ophicleide and drum. From Wordnik.com. [War : a poem, with copious notes, founded on the Revolution of 1861-62, (up to the battles before Richmond, inclusive),] Reference
This wonderful and unique instrument, horizontal and perpendicular Grand, five octaves, hammerless action, including keyboard, pedals, gong, peal of bells, ophicleide stop, and all the newest improvements, can be seen at Messrs. SPLITTE AND SON's. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference
Tallow candles, stuck round two hoops, threw a mysterious light on the green curtain, in front of which sat an orchestra of four musicians, playing on a trombone, an ophicleide, a clarionet, and a fiddle, as loudly as they could -- the artist on the trombone, especially, performing prodigies of blowing, though he had not room enough to develop the whole length of his instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
Classical pianists pour in from Germany principally; popular pianists, who delight in fantasias rather than concertos, and who play such tricks with the keyboards, that the performances have much more of the character of legerdemain than of art, arrive by scores; violinists, violoncellists, professors of the trombone, of the ophicleide, of the bassoon, of every unwieldy and unmanageable instrument in fact, are particularly abundant; and perhaps the most popular of all are the particularly clever gentlemen who, by dint of a dozen years 'or so unremitting practice, have succeeded in making one instrument sound like another. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852] Reference
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