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Author: Ms. B
Date: 2003-02-01 05:23
I have a clarinet that is made by Heckle. There is no serial number and my repair guy says that Heckle began making clarinets in 1810 and didn't put serial numbers on them until 1893. The clarinet is obviously quite old: made between those two dates. Does anyone know what this would be worth? If you have any information I would greatly appreciate any input! Thanks so much!
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-02-01 09:28
I have a Heckel Cor Anglais and a local museum has a Heckel oboe of a similar vintage. They are both from between 1920 and 1925. I am not sure of the dates you have been given they don't sound right to me. These old Heckel's are only collectors items. They are renowed for their bassoons and heckelphones and not much else. The double reeds are fingered on the old simple system which had been superseded well before 1920. They are made of nice rosewood however.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-02-01 14:03
Ms. B wrote:
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> There is no
> serial number and my repair guy says that Heckle began making
> clarinets in 1810 and didn't put serial numbers on them until
> 1893.
Heckel (not Heckle - I'm assuming a misspelling since I have no information on a Heckle) was a large family of musical instrument makers in Biebrich. They started making instruments in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century (near 1831, not 1810) to the present day. Iwan Müeller collaborated with them to produce a 13 key clarinet in 1845.
Their bassoons were unnumbered before 1887, no mention of clarinets so I wouldn't jump to any conclusion based on whether or not serial numbers (or the lack of them) means anything.
What, exactly, does the Heckel mark on the clarinet look like? They had a few markings and it might give us a range.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-02-02 16:42
From The Heckel wedsite:
"Johann Adam Heckel was appointed instrument manufacturer of the Court of the Dukes of Nassau in 1845. After his death in 1887, his son Wilhelm Hermann Heckel continued running the company under the name "WILHELM HECKEL BIEBRICH".
In those days, the production range of the house Heckel comprised, apart from the bassoons, contrabassoons and Heckelphones also other woodwind instruments such as clarinets, clarins, Heckelphon-clarinets, basset horns, saxophones, flutes, oboes, oboae d´amores and English horns."
Check out the site:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.heckel.de/&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522heckel%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG
Good luck,
JJM
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Author: Dimitrios
Date: 2003-02-02 17:53
An Albert system Heckel A clarinet was sold on eBay some 6-7 weeks ago for something like $ 200.00
Heckel's stopped making clarinets in the 20's
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