Liebesfuss

A Liebesfuss or Liebesfuß (German: [ˈliːbəsfuːs]; lit. 'love foot'; French: pavillon d'amour) is a pear- or bulb-shaped element that narrows to a small opening in double reed instruments such as the oboe d'amore, cor anglais and heckelphone.[1] It serves as a damper that gives these musical instruments a characteristically soft timbre.[2][3] It is the eponymous characteristic of the oboe d'amore, which was developed in the baroque alongside other particularly sweet-sounding instruments such as the viola d'amore and the clarinet d'amore, which originated around 1740, died out in the mid-19th century, and was redeveloped from 2017 to 2020 on the basis of a basset clarinet in G.[4][5]

Not to be confused with love handle.

A slightly larger and 90-degree angled love foot, which can be rotated both forwards and backwards, can be found on historical basset clarinets,[6] as well as on a modern basset clarinet that adopts this detail from a historical clarinet, as Charles Neidich did.

Liebesfuss of these instruments
Oboe d'amore and cor anglais
historical basset clarinet and modernised replica
modern clarinet d'amore (Seggelke)
modern clarinet d'amore (Gerold)
Instruments
Oboe d'amore
historical basset clarinet
modern Boehm clarinet d'amore
modern german clarinet d'amore (Gerold)

References
  1. Verdegem, Stefaan (March 2015). "Fétis, Gevaert, Mahillon and the Oboe d'Amore". The Galpin Society Journal. Galpin Society. 68: 75–120. JSTOR 44083257. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  2. "Cor de basset d'amour". Collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis. (in French). 2020.
  3. Émile Leipp. "Réflexions et expériences sur la clarinette, Bulletin du GAM (Laboratoire Acoustique, Université PARIS VI)" (PDF)..
  4. "Basset clarinet, period instrument, copy of an instrument made for Anton Stadler in the 1700s. Classical period". alamy.com. 2008-11-24.
  5. Albert R. Rice (1986), "The Clarinette D'Amour and Basset Horn", The Galpin Society Journal (in German), vol. 39, pp. 97–111, doi:10.2307/842136, JSTOR 842136
  6. Victor-Charles Mahillon (1874), Les Éléments d'acoustique musicale et instrumentale: comprenant l'examen de la construction théorique de tous les instruments de musique en usage dans l'orchestration moderne (in German), Brüssel: Mahillon, retrieved 2021-08-11


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