Labels:bulletin board | daily | hakham | person | sky | vegetarianism OCR: FACTS BOX NAME: SERPENT FAMILY: Brass BRASS PITCH RANGE: Around three octaves. MATERIAL: Wooden body with metal COMPLETE RANGE bocal mouthpiece of horn ivory or later examples. metal SIZE: About 8 ft 2.4m long ORIGINS: The serpent was built around 1590 in Auxerre France as kind of bass cornett by Edme Guillaume. It was used over much of Europe by the 1700s. CLASSIFICATION: Aerophone: an instrument that produces sound by the vibration of a column of air DID YOU KNOW? The serpent tisa powerful instrument: one writer described its voice so strong that even when played by boy it sufficient te support the voices of twent robust mon twenty