 Wilfrid Mellers also remarks on Offenbach's use of the piccolo to enhance Euydice's couplets with "girlish giggles" on the instrument.Gervase Hughes comments on the elaborate scoring of the "ballet des mouches" [Act 3, 1874 version], and calls it "a "tour de force"" that could have inspired Tchaikovsky.Faris comments that in "Orphée aux enfers" Offenbach shows that he was a master of establishing mood by the use of rhythmic figures.