Richard Haka

Richard Haka (* 1646 in London ; † 1705 ) was a Dutch woodwind instrument maker and founder of the Amsterdam School of Instrument Makers. His workshop made shawms , oboes , bassoons , transverse flutes and recorders .

Richard Haka was born in London in 1646 as the son of the walking stick maker Thomas Hakay. Around 1652 he moved to Amsterdam, but his wife Agnes lived in London again from 1675. For instrument makers in Amsterdam there were no restrictions through guild rules , which made it easier for Richard Haka's path to become the first and most important instrument maker in his day. In addition, the peace of Nijmegen was a beneficial circumstance, with which an upswing came for the cultural workers and also the musical life in Amsterdam flourished from 1680 on. His instruments were bought in Italy and Sweden, where even the navy had forty wind instruments delivered from him in 1685. Haka had students who gained a good reputation: Abraham van Aardenberg , Jan Steenbergen and his nephew Coenraad Rijkel , with whom he had a dispute in 1700 about the use of his brand .

Individual evidence

↑ Rob van Acht, Jan Bouterse, Vincent van den Ende: Dutch traversos and clarinets of the 18th century: Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (Dutch traversos and clarinets of the 18th century) , PPV Medien, Bergkirchen 2004, p. 18

Web links

Adrian Brown: A recorder by Richard Haka, found in Amsterdam in 2003 , TIBIA · Magazine for Woodwinds, Volume 29 · Issue 3/2004, pp. 187–190

personal data
SURNAME	Haka, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH	1646
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	1705

[1] Rob van Acht, Jan Bouterse, Vincent van den Ende: Dutch traversos and clarinets of the 18th century: Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (Dutch traversos and clarinets of the 18th century) , PPV Medien, Bergkirchen 2004, p. 18