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When the heavy-set Don Iñigo arrives on the scene, the sarrusophone, a large and deep metallic reed instrument, has some hilariously flatulent solos.

At one point, Ravel instructs the sarrusophone player to remove his mouthpiece and play as loudly as possible on it, in imitation of a rooster crowing.

Lipnick normally plays a contraforte, a variant on the bassoon, but for this piece he brandished an elongated metal instrument — a sarrusophone, a double-reed instrument invented in the mid-19th century, now almost completely forgotten, for which both this piece and the Dukas were originally scored.

One needs explanation: the sarrusophone, a brass instrument played with a reed.

The sarrusophone player blows and squeaks through the mouthpiece in a comically tuneless, pitchless manner.