Heckelphone-clarinet

{{Short description|Wooden conical bore single reed wind instrument}}

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The heckelphone-clarinet (or Heckelphon-Klarinette) is a rare woodwind instrument, invented in 1907 by Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. Despite its name, it is essentially a wooden saxophone with wide conical bore, built of red-stained maple wood, overblowing the octave, and with clarinet-like fingerings. It has a single-reed mouthpiece attached to a short metal neck, similar to an alto clarinet.{{cite book |last=Dullat |first=Günter |title=Klarinetten: Grundzüge ihrer Entwicklung |publisher=Bochinsky |date=2001 |location=Frankfurt am Main}} The heckelphone-clarinet is a transposing instrument in B{{music|flat}} with sounding range of D₃ (middle line of bass staff) to C₆ (two ledger lines above the treble staff), written a whole tone higher. {{cite book |last=Marcuse |first=Sibyl |title=Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/musicalinstrumen00marc |url-access=registration |publisher=Norton |date=1975 |location= New York|isbn=978-0-393-00758-9 }} The instrument is not to be confused with the heckel-clarina, also a very rare conical bore single reed woodwind by Heckel but higher in pitch and made of metal, nor with the heckelphone, a double reed instrument lower in pitch.