Heckelphone-clarinet

Heckelphone-clarinet

The heckelphone-clarinet (or Heckelphon-Klarinette) is a rare woodwind instrument, invented in 1907 by Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. Despite its name, it is essentially a wooden saxophone with wide conical bore, built of red-stained maple wood, overblowing the octave, and with clarinet-like fingerings. It has a single-reed mouthpiece attached to a short metal neck, similar to an alto clarinet.cite book
last = Dullat
first = Günter
title = Klarinetten: Grundzüge ihrer Entwicklung
publisher = Bochinsky
date = 2001
location = Frankfurt am Main
] The heckelphone-clarinet is a transposing instrument in B♭ with sounding range of d (middle line of bass staff) to c (two ledger lines above the treble staff), written a whole tone higher. cite book
last = Marcuse
first = Sibyl
title = Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary
publisher = Norton
date = 1975
location = New York
] The instrument is not to be confused with the heckel-clarina, also a very rare conical bore single reed woodwind by Heckel but higher in pitch and made of metal, nor with the heckelphone, a double reed instrument lower in pitch.

Timbre

The instrument sounds somewhat like a saxophone, but with a much softer tone. In his 1931 catalogue, Heckel asserts that "the clarinet-like tone of the instrument is excellent, extraordinarily harmonious, and powerful; nor is it sharp or metallic like that of the alto saxophone".cite book
last = Heckel
first =
title = Über 100 Jahre Weltruf
publisher = Heckel
date = 1931
location = Wiesbaden-Biebrich
] It was apparently intended for military use, but never became popular, and only between twelve and fifteen were manufactured.

References

External links

* [http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/download.html/1,908/Heckelclarina.jpgDiagram of heckelphone-clarinet] , heckel-clarina, and saxophone from 1931 Heckel catalog.


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