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	The Serpent,ancient musical wind instrument, related to the modern Tuba, Euphonium, and Baritone, unusual odd strange ...
		The serpent on the right is a 19th century military serpent, made by prolific serpent maker Francis Pretty.
		The Serpent is an ancient musical wind instrument, related to the modern Tuba, Euphonium, and Baritone.
		The Serpent was historically made from wood, although other materials such as brass were used.
	www.oddmusic.com /gallery/om24750.html (216 words)

	Musical Instruments Clipart ETC
		Instrument grouping A grouping of musical instruments including a guitar, lyre, and horns together with a festoon and sheet music.
		Reed Organ A musical instrument consisting essentially of one or more graduated sets of smll free reeds of metal, which are sounded by streams of air set in motion by a bellows, and controlled from a keyboard like tha of a pianoforte.
		Piano A musical instrument with a manual keyboard actuating hammers that strike wire strings, producing sounds that may be softened or sustained by means of pedals.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Arts/musical_instruments_2.htm (1915 words)

	Serpent (instrument) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The serpent is closely related to the cornett, although it is not part of the cornett family, due to the absence of a thumb hole.
		The instrument was invented by Canon Edmé Guillaume in 1590 in Auxerre, France, and was first used to strengthen the sound of choirs in plainchant.
		This position was adopted by English military serpents and the instrument was made of a more robust construction (owing to marching or riding on horseback) with thicker walls of the wood and metal stays between the "S" bends of the serpent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serpent_(instrument) (1364 words)

	Indian Musical Instruments
		The yazh was an open-stringed polyphonous instrument, with a wooden boat-shaped skin-covered resonator and an ebony stem.
		Chandra Pirai (of the shape of the moon) is a percussion instrument used in Mariamman temples and in temples of village deities.
		This is acompound musical instrument serving the double purpose of a drone accompaniment and rhythmic accompaniment.
	www.rso.cornell.edu /spicmacay/spicmacay_files/home_files/instr.html (3912 words)

	Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance
		Musical instruments have been in use for millennia, but their place in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance was often sharply defined and restricted.
		Instrumental music already had a long history, and in some cultures was at least as important as vocal music, but popular instrumental music especially suffered from being regarded as "pagan".
		During the Middle Ages, instrumental music was most often an accompaniment: it accompanied voice, it accompanied dance, it accompanied ceremony, and it accompanied war.
	www.tapiasgold.com /instruments.html (1330 words)

	Dragon's Gate -Instrument Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The harpsichord is a musical instrument whose strings are plucked from a keyboard and which sits on a table or stand while being played.
		The instrument's essential features are the lip (cut near the top of the body), the fipple (a block of wood inserted in the end to be blown), and the windway (a narrow channel along the fipple through which air is blown against the edge of the lip to produce sound).
		The serpent uses a mouthpiece similar to that of a trombone and is sounded the same way as other brass instruments, so it is classified as "brass", but it was originally, and often still is, made of wood, covered with leather.
	www.dragons-gate.com /library/instruments.htm (1634 words)

	Musical Instruments
		The great majority of musical instruments fall readily into one of six major categories: bowed strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, and the guitar family, the first four of which form the basis of the modern symphony orchestra.
		The standard instrument can be pitched in B flat (usually) or A, and the family is unusually extensive including the higher-pitched E flat, the B flat bass, the rarely-used C, the alto (a modern relative of the basset horn), and the even more obscure double-bass or 'pedal' clarinet.
		Brass instruments are also activated by blowing into them, although instead of using a form of reed over which the mouth is placed, the lips are placed against or inside the cup of a metal mouthpiece, and made to vibrate against its inner rim.
	www.naxos.com /education/music_instruments.asp (1225 words)

	The Serpent and the Sackbut.
		Wind instrument about 2.2 m (8 ft) long, with a conical bore, made in serpentine form to make it possible for the hands to reach the six fingerholes.
		Musical instrument, a precursor of the trombone, sharing many of its features.
		When playing the instrument the pitch is lowered as the player extends the slide away from the body.
	www.anvil.clara.net /serpent.htm (352 words)

	The History of the Euphonium
		A serpent had six finger holes to change pitches and was used most often as a supporting voice for the tenor and bass in church choirs.
		A serpent player had to have had an excellent sense of pitch because the intonation of the instrument was a serious problem.
		The introduction of the first valved instrument to fulfill the role previously occupied by the serpent and then the ophlicleide is generally credited to Sommer of Weimar about 1843 with his invention he called the "euphonion".
	www.lowbrassnmore.com /euponiumhistory.htm (999 words)

	Musical Instruments - Brass
		The valves are usually fingered with the musician's left hand while the musician places his or her right hand in the bell of the instrument to create additional pitches and variations in tone qualities.
		In the early trombone, the metal that was used to create the instrument was thicker and the bell of the instrument was narrower.
		Tuba is the general name for several musical instruments which are the newest additions to the brass family.
	library.thinkquest.org /15413/instruments/brass.htm (962 words)

	Musical Instruments - Music Encyclopedia
		The sackbut was an instrument similar to the slide trombone, the present form of the latter bearing indeed the other name as early as the Sixteenth Century.
		The instrument is popular among the Tyrolese singers and originally belonged to the people of eastern Europe.
		The instrument was employed in the orchestra, by Lumbye in Traumbildern, and by Saint-Saëns in his Danse Macabre.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/cat_index_19.shtml (976 words)

	Serpent - Devil Worship and Instrumental Music
		The fatal crime was musical idolatry of a trinity at Mount sinai.
		For instance, the Nachash is the serpent as a musical enchanter.
		Music is not evil but science and common sense knows that you cannot "give attendance to the reading of the Word" and watch the theatrical performance at the same time.
	www.piney-2.com /SerpentWorship.html (3904 words)

	Music, Art & Dance - Adolphe Sax & the Saxophone
		It is one of the most instantly recognizable of all musical instruments and has for many years been inextricably linked to the jazz genre.
		A serpent was an expensive instrument so Charles Sax made his own; a skill he would return to.
		The ophicleide was basically a bass keyed bugle and was a conical brass instrument with the brass cupped mouthpiece and replaced it with the single reed mouthpiece of a bass clarinet thereby creating a conical bore brass instrument with a single reed.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2003/dec03/issue/mad-adolphe_sax.html (735 words)

	Le Monde Du Serpent: A Review
		The distinctive timbre and character of the serpent seemed to have been permanently consigned to obscurity until 1970, when the Englishman Christopher Monk decided to learn to perform seriously on one that he had acquired and restored.
		Serpents are so "low tech" that even my modern, school-issued reproduction felt ancient when I practiced or performed on it.
		Mechanically, there is really nothing to a serpent: two snake-like pieces of carved wood fitted together and covered in a nice leather wrapper, with a long, brass bocal and a trombone-sized ivory mouthpiece.
	www.trombone.org /articles/library/viewarticles.asp?ArtID=242 (1274 words)

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		Musical Note (10) - Musical notes were certainly used in Period, but abstract symbols of this sort don't seem to have made it into heraldry.
		It is likely that medieval symbolism would have demanded either a musical instrument or an animal or bird known for its musical singing rather than the abstract symbol from a musical score.
		Serpents involved (6) don't seem to have been used in Period heraldry and are included as a hypothetical charge.
	www.s-gabriel.org /heraldry/lothar/picdic.txt (25052 words)

	Naga: The Serpent Musician
		Of course, in Genesis the Serpent is a
		As Gnosticism continued this false religion, Sophia was identified as the "serpent" and ZOE was identified as the "beast." She is the "female instructing principle" and forced the junior "jehovah" to form a musical praise team.
		In addition to the brass instruments such as pipes, trumpets or cymbals, stringed instruments are related to the "naga" word which carries the idea of being defeated or polluted.
	www.piney.com /naga.html (3766 words)

	Al's Tenor Horn Page - Tuba History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Though this researcher can never hope to do justice to this instrument in so short a piece, it nevertheless is my hope that this overview will provide the basis from which to form meaningful direction and questions in the minds of those who wish to know more about this instrument, its origins and related instruments.
		The largest version of this instrument, the contrabass Anaconda, appeared belatedly in 1840, and is now part of the collection of the Edinburg University Collection of Musical Instruments.
		This bass instrument was the forerunner of the Sousaphone, which is the self-same instrument with a directional bell grafted on.
	home.earthlink.net /~tenorhorn/tubahistory.html (1549 words)

	CD Baby: SERPENT UNDERGROUND: Devils of Flesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		this is the best band i know on myspace, serpent underground gets 5 stars from me, devils of flesh has mind blowing songs and lyrics, serpent underground will make it to the top in no time, serpent underground you guys get 5 stars from me, love ya, konnic.
		Music like this really shows what Metal, and Rock in general, should be like.
		This is definitely the music that speaks to your soul.
	cdbaby.com /cd/serpentunderground (1514 words)

	Medieval musical instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The serpent was probably invented in 1590 by Edme Guillaume.
		Two hundred years after the instrument was invented, it was used as a military instrument.
		Even though serpents were made of wood, they gave a sound similar to that of a brass instrument, and therefore classified as a “brass.” The wood was usually walnut and was typically covered in leather.
	www.palos118.org /south/curriculum/team6c/midages/musicali/index.htm (423 words)

	Assignment #1 - Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Create a finished picture (you may use other images you have found) with a minimum of four layers that would be ready to use on the web.
		I chose the serpent because of the shape and uniqueness of this instrument.
		I used a background image that I shot in Israel at the Masada with a definition of the serpent superimposed over faded sheet of music.
	www.csupomona.edu /~admckettrick/cls_301/html/cls_301_inst.htm (82 words)

	Serpent
		A serpent is a wind instrument with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind instrument.
		The serpent is closely related to the cornett.
		A variation on the serpent was the bass horn, which is essentially the same, but is simpler in shape, consisting of a tube folded back on itself (rather like the modern bassoon), rather than the curvy shape of the original instrument.
	www.infoweb.co.nz /serpent (233 words)

	Serpent Night at the MFA
		I brought along my Baudouin serpent (1801) to test out the acoustics of the room (which were quite nice, although the low frequencies caused the light fixtures to rattle occasionally).
		It is an 1801 Church Serpent in C by Baudouin (France), made of pearwood covered with leather, with two keys (for b natural and f sharp).
		The serpent jewel of the MFA collection is their 1820 Baudouin keyless serpent (on the left end of the table).
	www.yeodoug.com /articles/serpent_night/serpentnight.html (1876 words)

	London Serpent Trio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1990 they celebrated the 400th anniversary of the serpent in a concert at the same venue in which 57 serpentists from all over the world took part.
		Their aim is to demonstrate the astonishing versatility of this instrument, which, in spite of being remarkably intractable, has managed to outlive in usefulness the majority of its contemporaries.
		As there has never been another serpent trio, the choice of repertoire reflects the wide range of musical idioms in which the instrument has been utilised in widely differing contexts over more than four centuries.
	www.whitecottagewebsites.co.uk /lst/londonserpenttrio.html (179 words)

	Curious Article - Archives - The Serpent (Musical Instrument)
		The serpent consists of a wooden tube carved as two half-rounds, glued together and then firmly wrapped with a coil of veal skin or other leather to make it airtight.
		As musical instruments go, the serpent enjoyed a distinguished career — about 300 years — until it was phased out first by the ophicleide (a less zigzaggy version made of metal and employing keys rather than simple holes) and then finally the euphonium and tuba by the late nineteenth century.
		George Frederick Handel employed the serpent in his Royal Fireworks Music (1749), Beethoven in at least one of his marches, Berlioz in Messe Solennelle (1824 but lost until 1991), and Wagner in his opera Rienzi (1842).
	www.curiousnotions.com /curiosity-007.html (383 words)

	Beethoven and Berlioz Exhibition: Serpent Forveille
		Played with a cup mouthpiece, serpents are brass instruments, but are usually made of wood (some of copper or brass) and have fingerholes like woodwind instruments.
		It is covered with leather at the bottom to consolidate the doubling of the tubing and painted fl, with red paint on the inside of the bell.
		Source: André P. Larson, Beethoven and Berlioz, Paris and Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution and Romance 1789-1848, with essay by John Koster, exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003 (Vermillion: National Music Museum 2003), p.
	www.usd.edu /smm/Exhibitions/BeethovenBerlioz/BBTurlotserpent.html (181 words)

	The Serpent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the true bass of the cornett is performed with the serpent, so that one can say that one without the other is a body without a soul.
		The serpent was probably invented in 1590 by Edme Guillaume, a canon at Auxerre.
		The serpent has six finger holes arranged in two sets of three with a fundamental note of C. Note that without a hole for the thumb, the b and the c at the top of the each octave are both fingered the same, with the difference in pitch being made by lip adjustment.
	www.music.iastate.edu /antiqua/serpent.htm (344 words)

	Mirabilis.ca: unusual musical instruments Archives
		John Kenny was part of a team of scientists and musicians who resurrected the Pictish instrument known as the carnyx, a 2,000-year-old metal trumpet in the shape of a boar's head which was used by ancient Scots in their battle against Roman invasion.
		It is one of the few European folk music traditions that has survived the assaults of cultural change and foreign musical influences to continue nearly unchanged up to the present day.
		The serpent is that large twisty instrument, and here's what it sounds like.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/cat_unusual_musical_instruments.html (2258 words)

	Simon's Serpent Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I visit the Musical Instrument Makers Forum infrequently, but recently I found there in the Wind Instruments section a thread "how to make a pretty good serpent..." which presented Scott Hall's design for a quick-and-dirty serpent look- and sound-alike.
		Tempted by the idea of obtaining a bizarre instrument, close enough to a trombone that I could play it, for a small financial outlay and two days of work, I went for it.
		This is not a real serpent; the bocal is parallel not conical, and the bore is square section and rather narrow.
	www.simonchadwick.net /serpent (478 words)

	Frequently asked questions about the Internet Renaissance Band
		People who are interested in early music often do not agree about what it is, but a common definition is European music prior to the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, who died in 1750.
		Early music is marked by the first use (in Europe, at least), development, and perfection of "polyphony", music containing multiple, generally consonant melodic lines.
		Music of the late Medieval period is a delightful introduction to the rhythmically-complex polyphony of late Medieval France.
	www.curtisclark.org /emusic/irb-faq.html (3142 words)

	Serpent Quotes & Anecdotes
		In Germany, the Serpent was known as the Schlangenrohr, or "Snake Tube".
		There is only one exception to be made - the case where the Serpent is employed in the Masses for the Dead, to reinforce the terrible plainsong of the Dies Irae.
		Perhaps the most general fallacy is that it is exhausting to play, and that it is calculated to shatter the health of any one who takes it up....It is not so much great lung-power for a short time that is required, as a steady duration of breath.
	www.serpentwebsite.com /quote.htm (1813 words)

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