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The orchestra of the Gabrieli Consort seemed even bigger, but that was partly because of all the 19th- century ironmongery: hoops of brass hanging on music stands for the horn players to change keys, funny-looking slide trumpets, and a monster Contrabass Ophicleide.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"'Line up, Trombone!' shouted the keeper -- I heard his stentorian roar above the din -- 'Come, hurry along with the Bombardon; Ophicleide, you're too far in front.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 Various 1876
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