Heckelphone - Wikipedia The heckelphone is a double reed instrument of the oboe family, but with a wider bore and hence a heavier and more penetrating tone It is pitched an octave below the oboe and furnished with an additional semitone taking its range down to A
All the heckelphones ever made Every country shown in the legend and unlabelled in the figure have had one heckelphone delivery recorded Frederick's list covers only instruments completed between 1904 and 2010, Hurd Howe's list ends at 2002, and Reiter's list goes up to 2012
Heckelphone | Woodwind, Double-Reed, Oboe-Like | Britannica heckelphone, double-reed woodwind instrument resembling the baritone oboe It was perfected by Wilhelm Heckel in 1904 as a result of a request from the composer Richard Wagner about 20 years earlier for a low-register instrument combining the qualities of the oboe and the alphorn
What the heck is a heckelphone? | School of Music and Dance According to Steve, the heckelphone is a hybrid between those two instruments in several ways Its range is exactly between the bassoon and oboe The fingerings are like that of an oboe, and it is made from maple, which is the same as the bassoon
Heckelphone – Wilhelm Heckel GmbH The heckelphone is one octave lower in tone than the oboe and has a powerful and lush-sonorous, yet sweet and lovely sound The sound of the heckelphone is often described as giving the impression of hearing a human voice
The Heckelphone: A Rare, Intriguing and Surprisingly Versatile Member . . . The heckelphone is a double reed instrument invented by Wilhelm Heckel and his sons at the turn of the last century, inspired by Richard Wagner and prominently used by Richard Strauss, Frederik Delius and a surprising number of other composers
Heckelphone A relative of the oboe, the heckelphone is a double reed instrument invented in the early 1900s by German instrument maker Wilhelm Heckel It was intended to fill the gap between the cor anglais (English horn) and the bassoon
What the heck is a heckelphone? – Oregon Bach Festival According to Steve, the heckelphone is a hybrid between those two instruments in several ways Its range is exactly between the bassoon and oboe The fingerings are like that of an oboe, and it is made from maple, which is the same as the bassoon
Wilhelm Heckel GmbH – woodwind instruments Heckelphone The idea of the Heckelphone, introduced in 1904, goes back to Richard Wagner, who in 1879, during a visit to Wilhelm Heckel, longed for an instrument that sounded an octave lower than the oboe, and at the same time possessed the soft and powerful sound of the Alpenhorn