Lupophon
The lupophone is a woodwind instrument that was developed by the German instrument makers Guntram Wolf and Benedikt Eppelsheim and has been offered by Guntram Wolf since 2010. The name of the instrument refers to the name of its inventor (lupo: Italian for wolf), analogous to the naming of sarrusophone , saxhorn , saxophone , Heckelphone or Rothphon . The Lupophon is a modified Heckelphone; its body is made of sycamore maple ; the hole is filled inside.
Its range extends to low F. The bell is bent upwards like the saxophone in order to make the lupophone manageable despite its length of about 173 cm. Thanks to the additional four lowest semitones, the Lupophon can play the part composed for Heckelphone from Richard Strauss' Eine Alpensinfonie , which falls below the range of the Heckelphone.
The first chamber music composition in which the lupophone appears as a solo instrument, PLP for lupophone and two pianos by Samuel Andreyev , was premiered on March 15, 2011 in Amsterdam by Martin Bliggenstorfer .
Web links
- Lupophon on the website of Guntram Wolf Holzblasinstrument GmbH , accessed on June 9, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.derbund.ch/agenda/musik/Langes-Rohr-mit-dicker-Nase/story/26911682?dossier_id=1053 , accessed on June 9, 2017
- ↑ Lupophon - the new bass oboe from Guntram Wolf ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2017
- ↑ http://www.samuelandreyev.com/plp , accessed June 9, 2017
