Anton Haeckl

Anton Haeckl was an instrument maker in Vienna .

In Vienna, Anton Haeckl built the so-called Physharmonika as early as 1818 . Two of these small instruments, which were built in 1825, are in the Technisches Museum Wien , exhibit Inv. 19.480 (20 white keys) and Inv. No. 38.956. One in the Musical Instrument Museum of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and one in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg with inventory number: MIR1027. The physharmonica looked something like the small hand harmonics that are still popular in India today. The physharmonica had a piano keyboard . The smaller version of the instrument rested on the left arm and was played with the right hand. The range of this small version of the Physharmonica was from B to G``. In an advertisement from April 14, 1821 in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, page 254, the sentence: "Even in a very small format, the master makes copies of it that lie comfortably in the left arm while the right hand plays".

Haeckl received a patent (Privilegium) for such instruments on April 8, 1821.

Similar instrument

Main contribution → Physharmonica-like instruments

Aeolodicon

1824 Anton Reinlein in Vienna also received a patent for the improvements to this instrument.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Haekel, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
Egon von Komorzynski: Haekel, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 721.

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Gernhardt / Hubert Henkel / Winfried Schrammek: Organ instruments / harmoniums. Museum of musical instruments at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Catalog, Vol. 6, Leipzig 1983, pp. 71-72. Illustration to this. Retrieved on August 11, 2015 : “Physharmonika Anton Haeckl around 1825 Vienna / Austria / Europe Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig Keyboard instruments / Reed organs / Physharmonica Inventory number: 313 Description: 1 manual, C - C3, 1 row of tongues, 4 'horizontal drawer , not split, pressure wind system. The register cannot be deactivated. Fortezug, to switch with the right pedal or with a push button by hand. Description (decor): Box-shaped case made of spruce, veneered and polished with mahogany, 635 (657) mm wide, 196 (218) mm deep, 172 mm high, body with frame 749 mm high, keyboard height 735 mm. Three-legged frame made of oak and spruce, veneered with walnut, stained black and polished, the feet connected by frames, on which the pedals. Bronze fittings, gold-plated. On the feet 3 identical fittings in the grotesque style with winged genius, blowing double flute, fruit basket, laurel wreath and burning torch, below bronze balls. On the front 2 non-gilded lyre and 2 flying female genii, blowing trumpets, damaged. The key label does not belong. On the right side of the frame there is a bolt with a brass handle, which can be pulled out, to connect the instrument and frame. Dimensions: Total height: 749 mm, width: 657 mm, depth: 218 mm "
^ Physharmonika Anton Haeckl around 1825 Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Retrieved on August 11, 2015 (Description: Scope: g - a3.).
↑ "The local instrument maker, Anton Harkel, has invented a new instrument, which he calls Physharmonica, in the form of a 6 octave transverse pianoforte, without strings and pipes, the sound of the organ pedal in the bass and that in the middle the English or basset horn, just as the flageolet imitates the most deceptively in the higher cords. The keyboard is very easy to play, and since the bellows is kicked with the foot, the attack can be swelled at will, or reduced by a second mutation The master also makes copies of it in a very small format, which lie comfortably in the left arm while the right hand is playing, and at best can gently accompany a song in the open at night. The whole device is the same with every pianoforte without the slightest obstacle of ordinary size, so that each can either be used individually or both can be used together n essential advantage of this new invention - the tone of which comes very close to the attunement of the violins with the perfect touch of fifths - is an almost inconceivable indestructibility, and our art-loving public can soon convince itself of your work by the esteemed virtuoso, Mr. Hjronimus Payr will bring it to a hearing in a theater with tous pieces specially placed on it. " google book
^ "According to the Wiener Zeitung 1821, No. 97 of April 27th, Anton Häckl received a five-year patent for an instrument where the wind produced various sounds from brass and steel springs that are attached to brass bodies (which no doubt could also be made of iron) and cannot easily get upset. This instrument, which he calls phys-harmonica, can easily be associated with any piano instrument because of its small size. (According to this description, it cannot be essentially different from the Aeolodicon, where the same idea was very well executed in the one I saw and heard in Frankfurth. One should not duplicate the names too much, but rather, like every keyboard instrument where strings are struck by hammers is a pianoforte, so also every keyboard instrument where springs, like with the jaw harp or harmonica, are made to sound by a stream of air, call an aeolodicon.) " Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung, Volume 23, Friedrich Rochlitz, 1821, page 396 online

personal data
SURNAME	Haeckl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
DATE OF DEATH	19th century

[1] Klaus Gernhardt / Hubert Henkel / Winfried Schrammek: Organ instruments / harmoniums. Museum of musical instruments at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Catalog, Vol. 6, Leipzig 1983, pp. 71-72. Illustration to this. Retrieved on August 11, 2015 : “Physharmonika Anton Haeckl around 1825 Vienna / Austria / Europe Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig Keyboard instruments / Reed organs / Physharmonica Inventory number: 313 Description: 1 manual, C - C3, 1 row of tongues, 4 'horizontal drawer , not split, pressure wind system. The register cannot be deactivated. Fortezug, to switch with the right pedal or with a push button by hand. Description (decor): Box-shaped case made of spruce, veneered and polished with mahogany, 635 (657) mm wide, 196 (218) mm deep, 172 mm high, body with frame 749 mm high, keyboard height 735 mm. Three-legged frame made of oak and spruce, veneered with walnut, stained black and polished, the feet connected by frames, on which the pedals. Bronze fittings, gold-plated. On the feet 3 identical fittings in the grotesque style with winged genius, blowing double flute, fruit basket, laurel wreath and burning torch, below bronze balls. On the front 2 non-gilded lyre and 2 flying female genii, blowing trumpets, damaged. The key label does not belong. On the right side of the frame there is a bolt with a brass handle, which can be pulled out, to connect the instrument and frame. Dimensions: Total height: 749 mm, width: 657 mm, depth: 218 mm "

[2] Physharmonika Anton Haeckl around 1825 Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Retrieved on August 11, 2015 (Description: Scope: g - a3.).

[3] "The local instrument maker, Anton Harkel, has invented a new instrument, which he calls Physharmonica, in the form of a 6 octave transverse pianoforte, without strings and pipes, the sound of the organ pedal in the bass and that in the middle the English or basset horn, just as the flageolet imitates the most deceptively in the higher cords. The keyboard is very easy to play, and since the bellows is kicked with the foot, the attack can be swelled at will, or reduced by a second mutation The master also makes copies of it in a very small format, which lie comfortably in the left arm while the right hand is playing, and at best can gently accompany a song in the open at night. The whole device is the same with every pianoforte without the slightest obstacle of ordinary size, so that each can either be used individually or both can be used together n essential advantage of this new invention - the tone of which comes very close to the attunement of the violins with the perfect touch of fifths - is an almost inconceivable indestructibility, and our art-loving public can soon convince itself of your work by the esteemed virtuoso, Mr. Hjronimus Payr will bring it to a hearing in a theater with tous pieces specially placed on it. " google book

[4] "According to the Wiener Zeitung 1821, No. 97 of April 27th, Anton Häckl received a five-year patent for an instrument where the wind produced various sounds from brass and steel springs that are attached to brass bodies (which no doubt could also be made of iron) and cannot easily get upset. This instrument, which he calls phys-harmonica, can easily be associated with any piano instrument because of its small size. (According to this description, it cannot be essentially different from the Aeolodicon, where the same idea was very well executed in the one I saw and heard in Frankfurth. One should not duplicate the names too much, but rather, like every keyboard instrument where strings are struck by hammers is a pianoforte, so also every keyboard instrument where springs, like with the jaw harp or harmonica, are made to sound by a stream of air, call an aeolodicon.) " Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung, Volume 23, Friedrich Rochlitz, 1821, page 396 online