Ophicleide alert!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Just been told that an ophicleide will feature on this evening's Antiques Roadshow (BBC1, 8pm) brought along by a local brass bander (Bbm please note!).

This, hard on the heels of the leading role played by an ophicleide towards the end of Part 1 of the Heimat prequel films screened on BBC4 last weekend

These are heady times for ophicleidophiles

[vinteuil]

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... sadly I think I have mislaid volume vii of the Encyclopaedia Calibanica : 'Ocelot-Ophicleide'

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

An ophicleidoscope?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Ophikleider machen Ophileute???

Perhaps this should have gone on the Zemlinsky thread

Sollte ich meinen Mantel bekommen?

[ahinton]

An ophicleidoscope?

I once mistakenly assumed that an ophicleide is a brass instrument that stretches from Offa's Dyke to the Clyde but then discovered otherwise.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks Cali! Will watch this on catch up! :)

[Richard Tarleton]

I don't think the "expert" knew a great deal, a quick glance at wiki on his smartphone might have helped him be a bit more convincing.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think the "expert" knew a great deal, a quick glance at wiki on his smartphone might have helped him be a bit more convincing.

What were they ophied for it?

[Richard Tarleton]

What were they ophied for it?

I've forgotten what the valuation was. The band member who brought it along blew a raspberry on it, basically the ophicliede part from the SF??

[Nick Armstrong]

I've forgotten what the valuation was. The band member who brought it along blew a raspberry on it, basically the ophicliede part from the SF??

The tuning was a bit oph, I thought.

I can't remember what the valuation was either

[Keraulophone]

The 'expert' reckoned c. £1200, which was rather more than the 'scrap value' the owner was expecting.

(I had to look in to check that he hadn't nicked the one from Truro Cathedral's 'Little Giant'.)

[ahinton]

I don't think the "expert" knew a great deal, a quick glance at wiki on his smartphone might have helped him be a bit more convincing.

He didn't seem even to know how to pronounce it; "ophicleed", he called it!

[BBMmk2]

Thank you Cali! Caught up with the programme last night! Rather good I thought but yes, have to agree with some members here that he should have done more homework and also made sure about the pronunciation as well. But thank you to Cali for highlighting this.