Post Quiz: Behold the Heckelphone! Answers
Created | Updated Oct 14, 2018
Behold the Heckelphone! Answers
Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the heckelphone.
- The heckelphone is a cousin of the….
- Oboe.
- The heckelphone gets its name from….
- The last name of the inventor, Wilhelm Heckel.
- The idea for the heckelphone was first suggested by…..
- Wagner.
- The inventor of the heckelphone worked on it for ….
- Twenty-five years.
- Today, the world's heckelphone population numbers around….
- 100.
- The heckelphone sounds most like….
- An alphorn.
- Because the heckelphone is so rare, and only made by one company, another similar instrument has been invented. It's called the ….
- Lupophone.
- The first use of the heckelphone was in….
- Richard Strauss's Salome.
- Finnish composer Kalevi Aho included a heckelphone in his opera….
- Insect Life.
- Two trios have been written for heckelphone, viola, and piano. One, by Graham Waterhouse, was inspired by….
- The drawings of MC Escher.
Now you know you want to learn to play one of these. Oh, you'd rather hear one? Here's a sample.