Ophicleide Quartet
I forgot what this song is called. I think Vermählungslied or something. It's either Bruckner or Mahler, I THINK....don't quote me. I recorded a while back. I'm not a big fan of making videos, so I just threw some pictures of me playing my ophicleide and bam. Done. Youtube needs more ophicleide. This is a Wessex C ophicleide.
About Ophicleide
The ophicleide is a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France to extend the keyed bugle into the lower range. Of these, the bass ophicleide in eight-foot (8′) C or 9′ B♭ took root over the course of the 19th century in military bands and as the bass of orchestral brass sections throughout Western Europe, replacing the serpent and its later upright derivatives. By the end of the 19th century, however, it had been largely superseded, in bands by the eupho...
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