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Heckelphonists (present and past):
- Stella Amar
(Canada) - oboist, plays heckelphone #4054 [♯]
- Samuel Andreyev
(1981-; Strasbourg, France) - oboist, composer and poet; plays heckelphone #19 (made in 1906) [♯]
- Samuel Bastos
(1987-2019; Switzerland) - oboist, used to play #4988
- Cornelia Biggers (1935-2020; USA) - bassoonist; used to play heckelphone #4963 (made in 1957)
- Albrecht Bode (1942-; Köln, Germany) - oboist (and organ builder); plays heckelphone since 2005 [♯]
- Ulrich Brokamp
(1957-; Düsseldorf, Germany) - oboist; plays heckelphone #4918 (made in 1956) since 1987 [♯]
- Gerald Corey
(1934-2010; Ottawa, Canada) - bassonist and co-founder of the International Double Reed Society (IDRS)
- Margaret Cookhorn (Birmingham, UK) - bassoonist [♯]
- Markus Deuter
(1961-; Wien, Austria) - oboist [♯]
- Robert Dewar (1945-2015; New York City, NY, USA) - bassoonist and computer scientist
- Frederic (Fred) Dutton
(1928-; Reseda, CA, USA) - bassoonist and bass player, former member of the Dave Brubeck quartet, used to play heckelphone #3282
- John Ellis
(1943-2015) - oboist and oenologist; played heckelphone #33
- Bernhard Emmerling
(1951-; Oberhaching, Germany) - oboist [♯]
- Carl Erkert (1873-??; Köln, Germany) - oboist; played the heckelphone at its first formal demonstration, on 11 August 1904
- Margaret Friederich
(1960-; Heidelberg, Germany)
- oboist and specialist for rare woodwind instruments; plays heckelphone #3917 (made in 1925) [♯]
- Alain Girard (Biel, Switzerland) - oboist [♯]
- Ross Gorman
(1890-1953) - clarinettist, saxophonist and bandleader
- Arthur Grossman (Seattle, WA, USA) - bassoonist; plays heckelphone since 2000 [♯]
- Theo Heinrichs (Mainz, Germany) - oboist
- Alfred Hertel
(1935-2018; Austria) - oboist
- Thomas Hiniker (Rochester, MN, USA) - oboist and oboe maker [♯]
- Robert Howe (1956-; Wilbraham, MA, USA) - oboist, collector and physician [♯]
- Dale Hunter (Montréal and Toronto, Canada) - oboist [♯]
- Peter Hurd (Bellingham, WA, USA) - oboist and collector [♯]
- Gunther Joppig
(1943-; Munich, Germany) - oboist, musicologist and cabinet maker [♯]
- Thomas Kiefer (1954-; Gelsenkirchen, Germany) - bassoonist [♯]
- Georg Otto Klapproth (1936-; Köln, Germany) - oboist
- Norman Kuhnert
(1965-; Chemnitz, Germany) - bassoonist; plays heckelphone since 2018 [♯]
- Lajos Lencsés
(1943-; Stuttgart, Germany) - oboist; played heckelphone in a well-known recording of the Hindemith Trio [♯]
- Donald MacCourt
(Ridgewood, NJ, USA) - bassoonist; used to play heckelphones #4981, #4014
- John McDougall
(London, UK) - bassoonist; plays heckelphone #4014 (made in 1927) [♯]
- Georg Meerwein
(1932-2016; Bamberg, Germany) - oboist
- John Orford
(UK) - bassoonist, plays heckelphone since 1981, plays heckelphone #4992 (made in 1990) [♯]
- Mark Perchanok (New York City, NY, USA) - oboist; plays heckelphone #4773 (made in 1950), e.g., in recordings with the Paul Winter Consort [♯]
- Winfried Petri
(1914-2000; Germany) - bassonist, used to play heckelphone #4982
- Wolfgang Piesk
(1952-; Sauerlach, Germany) - bassoonist, plays heckelphone #4982 [♯]
- Wolfgang Plank (1971-; Vienna, Austria) - oboist; plays heckelphone #42 (made in 1909) [♯]
- Francesco Pomarico
(1960-; Italy) - oboist & conductor [♯]
- Jeffrey Rathbun (Cleveland, OH, USA) - oboist and composer [♯]
- Christopher Redgate
(1956-; UK) - oboist and composer, also plays lupophone [♯]
- Jim Rodgers
(1967-; Moon Township, PA, USA) - bassoonist, plays heckelphone #4973 (made in 1972) [♯]
- Ernest Rombout
(1959-; The Netherlands) - oboist [♯]
- Wolfgang Schottstädt (1953-; Wiesbaden, Germany) - English horn player [♯]
- Werner Schulze
(1952-; Vienna, Austria) - bassoonist and composer; used to play heckelphone #3917 (made in 1925)
- Harry Searing (Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA) - bassoonist; plays heckelphone since 2002 [♯]
- Jim Schaeffer
(New York City, NY, USA) - bassoonist, artistic director and adjunct professor of business, used to play heckelphone #5021 (made in 2010)
- Emil Sehnert (1871-1940; Dresden, Germany) - bassoonist; one of the first players and early proponents of the heckelphone;
played heckelphone #10 at the premiere of Salome by Richard Strauss, on 9 December 1905 in Dresden (Germany)
- Maxine Shimer
(1914-1995, Canada/USA) - bassoonist, used to play heckelphone #4107
- William Short
(New York City, NY, USA) - bassoonist [♯]
- Andrew Shreeves (New York City, NY, USA) - oboist and musicologist [♯]
- Leland Smith (1925-2013; USA) - bassoonist and composer; student of Darius Milhaud
and one of the founders of the Stanford Center for Computer Research and Musical Acoustics (CCRMA)
- Katrin Stüble (Stuttgart, Germany) - oboist [♯]
- Robert Tootelian
(1922-2012; USA) - bassoonist, used to play heckelphone #4055 (made in 1928)
- John Upton (St Petersburg, FL, USA) - oboist; has (at least on occasion) played heckelphone #25 (made in 1906) [♯]
- Steve Vacchi (1968-; Eugene, OR, USA) - bassoonist; plays heckelphone #4141 (made in 1930) [♯]
- Tatjana Winkler
(~1967-; Germany) - oboist [♯]
That's 56 heckelphonists overall (31 oboists, 1 English horn player, 23 bassonists
and one - versatile and famous - clarinettist),
of whom those actively playing (as of February 2021) are marked [♯].
Of course, those are just the ones I know about, and I am certain there are (and surely were) many more.
OK, perhaps not that many, but at least a few.
As I learn about them, I will add them to this list.
Contact me at
heckelphone@gmx.net
or @heckelphon on Twitter
to suggest changes or additional entries.