Klarinet Archive - Posting 000766.txt from 1997/12

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: re: Heckelphones
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:28:16 -0500

>Yes, the instrument is still being produced. Heckel will make one on
>order. A few years ago, the magazine of the International Double Reed
>Society, the Double Reed, featured a photo of a heckelphone on its
>cover.

I have several pictures of heckelphones posted (with permission of Heckel)
at http://www.contrabass.com/pages/heckel.html. The bass/baritone oboe has
a bore twice the cross-sectional area of the oboe (as is typical when
scaling up woodwinds to bass sizes), whereas the heckelphone bore has twice
the *diameter* of the oboe bore.

Grant

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