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heckelphone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun heckelphone has 1 sense
- heckelphone(n = noun.artifact) basset oboe - an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe; Array is a kind of hautbois, hautboy, oboe
OXFORD DICTIONARY
heckelphone, n. Mus. a bass oboe.
Etymology
G Heckelphon f. W. Heckel, 20th-c. Ger. instrument-maker
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