Talk:Heckelphone-clarinet

Fingering
I changed 'clarinet fingering' to 'clarinet-like fingering', because an instrument overblowing at the octave can't have the same fingering as a clarinet; the latter's fingering is in part driven by its overblowing at the twelfth. But I'm not particularly happy with 'clarinet-like fingering' either. There are, after all, several different clarinet fingering systems. Which is the heckelphone-clarina's fingering supposed to resemble? I would guess the Albert system, but I don't know. -- Rsholmes 00:53, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Key
I'm going out on a limb and re-asserting the instrument is in E-flat. First of all, Dullat says so (and if he is wrong, the Dullat citation should not be attached herein to the altered claim; that's one reason I changed it back.) Second, look at the picture: to me it appears the instrument is a good deal larger than a soprano saxophone, about the same length (accounting for curves) as an alto, and much smaller than a tenor. This of course doesn't prove it wasn't notated in B-flat (or G-flat, or C-sharp -- notation is purely a matter of convention) but I would expect it to have been notated similarly to saxophones. Heckel's 1931 catalog has been cited as a source and of course that would be fairly authoritative. If you've actually looked at the catalog very recently and are certain it says B-flat, then by all means change this article back -- but please move the Dullat citation (or remove it, and I'll reattach it somewhere appropriate) and add the Heckel catalog as a new reference. Oh, and the neck looks more like an alto clarinet's than a bass's to me. -- Rsholmes 12:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I own a copy of the 1931 Heckel catalogue. And I personally inspected a heckelphone-clarinet at the Heckel workshop in Biebrich four days ago. The text "in B" is stamped below the maker's mark. --S.A.


 * Then B-flat is undoubtedly correct. However, it is not correct to attribute the statement that it's in B-flat to Dullat, who says E-flat.  Please supply a citation of the catalog in the article. -- Rsholmes 01:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)