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How to use helicon in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word helicon? Here are some examples.

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It was from the helicon that Conn in the USA devised the sousaphone for the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa.
The helicon was the basis of the sousaphone named for its inventor, American bandmaster John Philip Sousa.
In the 1890s he also redeveloped a type of bass tuba called the helicon, made to his specifications and eventually called the sousaphone.
Later, the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa established his own variation of the helicon, and it became known as the sousaphone.
Keeping the faith with the Balkan brass-band traditions, he leads his boys through romps of full-bodied funkiness, cemented by blasts on the tuba-like helicon.
When the bass instrument was bent into an over-the-shoulder model, it was called a helicon.
It is a form that sets store by its use of the demotic, its willingness to locate the sources of poetry defiantly far from the spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the muses.
The Aonian fount stood at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and was sacred to the Muses.
Examples from Classical Literature
He sat near the fountain-head, and tasted the waters of helicon in their source.
Let helicon empty its waters to swell the river of knowledge on which they row.
The present Edition is improved by a copy in England's helicon, edit.
It was thus that helicon, the home of the Muses, took its birth.
The pitch of the helicon is an octave below that of the euphonium.
At 5.40 the helicon was sent into harbour with a flag of truce.
Mountains of cheese, rivers of fat broth, are their Helicon and Hippocrene.
Dost thou soothe the Elysian groves with thy tender song, or dost thou dwell upon a Tartarean Helicon?
As a kitten of the Muses and meer frog of Helicon he croaked cataracts of plumbeous cerebrosity.
The Hotel Helicon is a place to delight the artist and the litterateur.
After his emergence, Pegasus creates the Hippocrene spring on Mount Helicon, home of the Muses, with a blow from his hoof.
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