Jean Hilaire Asté
FRENCH INVENTOR OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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Jean Hilaire Asté (1775–1840), also known as Halary or Halari, was a French professor of music and instrument-maker.The Cornet Compendium: The History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet Among the other instruments he patented, he is best known for inventing the ophicleide of which, it has been claimed, only five originals remain.