Labels:bulletin board | daily | hakham | person | sky | tie | tree | vegetarianism OCR: FACTS BoX NAME: SERPENT FAMILY: Brass BRASS PITCH RANGE: Around three octaves. MATERIAL: Wooden body with metal RANGE bocal mouthpiece of horn ivory or later examples. metal. SIZE About fi 2.4m long ORIGINS: The serpentwas built around 1590 in Auxerre France an kind of bass cornett by Edme Guillaume. It was used over much of Europe the 1700s CLASSIFI ICATION: Acrophone: an instrument that produces sound by the vibration of column of air DID KNOW? The serpentis a powerful instrument: one writer described Its voice so strong that even when played by boy IT T sufficicnt support the yoices of twenty robust COMPLETE mouthpicce buil CLASSIFICATION voices
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