Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2000/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Recorders
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 05:25:14 -0500

Holst *may* have meant "heckelphone" -- apparently nobody has ever
fathomed out what he expected ( not even Imogen H.???).
Roger S.

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Benjamin Maas wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:22:13 -0800
> From: Benjamin Maas <benmaas@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Recorders
>
>
> > Further information on the Heckelphone, aka bass oboe. The
> > Richard Strauss'
> > score for Elektra calls for "Heckelphon" which is listed after the 3 Oboi
> > (3rd anche corno inglese), then Heckelphon...so Strauss places it
> > in the oboe
> > family.
> >
>
> A Heckelphon is a double reed instrument that looks much like an oboe. My
> understanding, however, is that it is a different instrument than a bass
> oboe. Holst calls for a bass oboe in The Planets, but it is not a
> Heckelphon.
>
> I have not seen one up close so I cannot comment on its keywork/fingering
> system.
>
> --Ben
>
> Benjamin Maas
> Fifth Circle Audio
> Los Angeles, CA
> benmaas@-----.com
> http://www.fifthcircle.com
>
>
>
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