Heckel Clarina
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The Heckel Clarina or Clarina is a rare woodwind instrument that was developed and manufactured by Wilhelm Heckel and his son Wilhelm Hermann Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich . Wilhelm Heckel received a patent for the instrument on December 8, 1889. It was apparently intended for use in Richard Wagner's "Fröhlicher Hirtenweise" in the 3rd act of Tristan and Isolde . From 1891 the Heckel Clarina was used in the Bayreuth Festival Hall as a replacement for the wooden trumpet . The Clarina was considered more suitable for producing the desired timbre.
The Heckel Clarina is a single reed instrument made of metal with a conical shape of the sound tube, which is similar to a soprano saxophone . It uses the oboe's grip system and the clarinet's single- reed mouthpiece . The Heckel Clarina was built in B and Eb. According to advertising their sound resembles the lower register that of the English horn , that of the saxophone in the middle and the clarinet in the upper register. The instrument should not be confused with the Heckelphone clarinet , also a rare single-reed instrument with a conical shape of the sound tube, but which is made of wood and is deeper.
Web links
- Drawings of Heckel clarina, Heckelphone clarinet and saxophone from a Heckel catalog from 1931.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Günter Dullat: Clarinets: Basics of their development . Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-923639-44-9 .
- ↑ a b Kathleen Schlesinger: Clarina . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 6 : Châtelet - Constantine . London 1910, p. 437 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).