Anton Haeckl

Anton Haeckl was an instrument maker in Vienna.

In Vienna, Anton Haeckl built already in 1818 the so-called Physharmonica. Two of these small instruments that have been built in 1825, located in the Vienna Technical Museum, exhibit Inv. No. 19.480 (20 white keys) and Inv. No. 38 956. The Physharmonica looked so much like the little hand harmonies that are still popular even today in India. The Physharmonica had a piano keyboard. The smaller copy of the instrument resting on the left arm and was played with the right hand. The range of this small variant of the Physharmonica was from H to g''. In a display of 14 April 1821 in the general musical newspaper page 254 The entries include the sentence: "Even in a very small formats manufactures of master copies thereof which lie comfortably in the left arm, indess the right hand plays ."

A patent ( privilege ) received Haeckl for such instruments on 8 April 1821.

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