heckelphone (redirected from heckelphones)

heck·el·phone  (hkl-fn)

n.

A woodwind instrument of the oboe family, with a pitch between that of an English horn and a bassoon.

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[German Heckelphon, after Wilhelm Heckel (1879-1952), German musical instrument maker.]

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Noun

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heckelphone - an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe basset oboe hautbois, hautboy, oboe - a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece