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HELICON (Fr. helicon, See also: form of the Bb contrabass See also: tuba used in military bands, worn round the See also: body, with the enormous See also: bell resting on the See also: left shoulder and towering above the See also: head of the performer
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The See also: pitch of the helicon is an octave below that of the euphonium
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The idea of winding the long See also: tube of the contrabass tuba and of wearing it round the shoulders was suggested by the See also: ancient See also: Roman buccina and See also: cornu, represented in mosaics and on the sculptured reliefs surrounding Trajan's See also: Column
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The buccina and cornu2 differed in the diameter of their respective bores, the former having the narrow, almost cylindrical See also: bore and See also: harmonic series of the See also: trumpet and trombone, whereas the cornu, having a bore in the form of a wide See also: cone, was the prototype of the See also: bugle and tubas
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