 A musician playing the lupophone | |
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| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 422.112 (Double-reededaerophone withkeys) |
| Developed | 1904 |
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TheLupophon[1][2] (orlupophone) is an extremely rarewoodwind instrument in theoboe family that plays in a lower pitch than standard, and was developed byGuntram Wolf ofKronach andBenedikt Eppelsheim ofMunich, Germany, manufactured by Guntram Wolf. The instrument takes its name after the Italian translation of the inventor's surname (lupo standing forwolf), as thesarrusophone, thesaxhorn, thesaxophone, theheckelphone, and therothphone are named after their inventors. It is in effect a modifiedheckelphone, with a slightly smaller bore and range down to low F. The lower portion of the instrument is folded back on itself in order to manage the considerable length of the tube, somewhat in the manner of a saxophone. The addition of the four lowest semitones allows it to cover the full intended range of the heckelphone part ofRichard Strauss'Eine Alpensinfonie, which descends beyond that instrument's lowest note.
The first chamber composition featuring the instrument in a solo capacity,PLP for lupophone and two pianos bySamuel Andreyev, was premiered by Martin Bliggenstorfer in Amsterdam on 15 March 2011.[3]