It was from the helicon that Conn in the USA devised the sousaphone for the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa. |
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The helicon was the basis of the sousaphone named for its inventor, American bandmaster John Philip Sousa. |
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In the 1890s he also redeveloped a type of bass tuba called the helicon, made to his specifications and eventually called the sousaphone. |
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Later, the American bandmaster John Philip Sousa established his own variation of the helicon, and it became known as the sousaphone. |
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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. |
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When the bass instrument was bent into an over-the-shoulder model, it was called a helicon. |
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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. |
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The Aonian fount stood at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and was sacred to the Muses. |
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