A Liebesfuss (Liebesfuß, 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 Heckelphon.
It serves as a damper that gives these musical instruments a characteristically soft
timbre
In music, timbre ( ), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musica ...
.
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
The viola d'amore (; Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6- stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin.
Structure and sound
The vio ...
and the
clarinet d'amore
The clarinet d'amore or clarinet d'amour is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family.
Construction and tone
In comparison with the B and A soprano clarinets, the clarinet d'amore has a similar shape and construction, but is gene ...
, 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.
A slightly larger and 90-degree angled love foot, which can be rotated both forwards and backwards, can be found on historical
basset clarinet
, french: clarinette de basset; it, clarinetto di bassetto;
, classification = Aerophon, clarinet-family
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, inventors = Theodor Lotz and others
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s,
as well as on a modern basset clarinet that adopts this detail from a historical clarinet, as
Charles Neidich
Charles Neidich (born 1953 in New York City) is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor.
Early career
A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich ...
did.
References
Oboes
clarinets
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