ABSTRACT
The discovered inventory from 1685 of a delivery of 40 woodwind instruments by Richard Haka to Sweden mentions both teutsche schalmeijen and franse haubois in various sizes and pitches. Haka, one of the first professional woodwind makers in Amsterdam, was a versatile craftsman who made recorders, traversos, oboes and bassoons, and at least 38 instruments with his stamp have survived. Haka is particularly interesting because he is one of the few makers who produced instruments in the old style and in the new Baroque style. Haka also made double-reed instruments of a type called Deutsche schalmei. Anthony Baines suggested that the Deutsche schalmei was the German woodwind makers' answer to the French hautbois, but he also states that the instrument came too late to play an important role in the music of the late seventeenth century. Rather than comparing Deutsche schalmeien with oboes, there are more interesting differences to note between Haka's short and long oboes.
