Introducing the Serpent
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Andrew Kershaw shows us a rare and endangered instrument, seldom found in orchestras of today; the serpent - an unusual looking beast, distant relative of the tuba, which composers such as Wagner, Mendelssohn and Berlioz wrote for.
Hear the serpent live at our concerts of Mendelssohn:
0:00 Introduction
0:12 History
0:26 Construction
0:50 Why it is a brass instrument
0:59 The six fingerholes
1:31 Composers who wrote for it
1:55 Keys added and development of Ophicleide
2:14 Capriol Suite, Peter Warlock
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