The Kelischek Workshop produces a wide range of inexpensive plastic windcap instruments, pennywhistles, tabor pipes, and pentatonic recorders. The crumhorns and Kelhorns are the least expensive renaissance windcap instruments currently available from any maker; when serviced, regulated, and tuned in our own workshop, they provide excellent performance at a very attractive price and can serve as excellent introduction for recorder players wanting to branch out into other historical wind instruments. Please see the additional listings for Kelischek plastic and wooden mini-ocarinas at Gifts Items and Miniature Instruments
After having been out of production for many years, these renaissance windcap instruments have been redesigned, provided with new, vastly improved reeds, and are once again available through our workshop. We revoice and retune each instrument to our own professional standards. The crumhorns are available in three sizes and have two keys to extended the basic range of a ninth by three additional half tones to an eleventh. The Kelhorns, inspired by the historical renaissance kortholts, have the original historical range of a ninth and a patented convoluted internal bore design that reduces the physical dimensions to an extremely compact, easy-to-finger size. Kelhorns have essentially the same tone quality as the crumhorns, and a bass Kelhorn makes an excellent bass range instrument to a set of crumhorns. We also offer an excellent assortment of Susato Press publications, including the new Nine is Fine series, which provide a wealth of historical and folk music suitable for non-overblowing instruments such as crumhorns, Kelhorns, gemshorns, and beginning recorder players as well.
| Instrument | Range | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| soprano crumhorn in c' | c'-f'' | two keys range of an 11th plastic reed |
330.00 |
| alto crumhorn in g | g-c'' | 360.00 | |
| alto crumhorn in f | f-b |
360.00 | |
| tenor crumhorn in c | c-f' | 390.00 | |
| hard case for SAT crumhorns | 115.00 | ||
| soprano Kelhorn in c' | c'-d'' | no keys range of a 9th plastic reed |
240.00 |
| alto Kelhorn in g | g-a' | 285.00 | |
| alto Kelhorn in f | f-g' | 285.00 | |
| tenor Kelhorn in c | c-d' | 330.00 | |
| bass Kelhorn in F | F-g | 420.00 | |
| hard case for SA Kelhorns | 68.00 | ||
| hard case for TB Kelhorns | 68.00 | ||
| hard case for SAT Kelhorns | 78.00 | ||
| hard case for SATB Kelhorns | 98.00 | ||
This new instrument from the Kelischek Workshop nicely avoids the chronic voicing instability problem of gemshorns made from natural materials. This instrument uses simplified soprano recorder fingerings, has double holes for c'-c#' and d'-d#'. We stock these instruments in rosewood brown, ebony black, and ivory white, and other models in red, light blue, and dark blue are available on special order.
| Instrument | Range | Price |
|---|---|---|
| soprano gemshorn in c'' | b'-d#''' | 34.95 |
| Instrument | Range | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| pennywhistle in d'' | d''-d'''' | two piece tuning slide clip-on thumbrest |
39.90 |
| pennywhistle in c'' | c''-c'''' | 39.90 | |
| pennywhistle in bb' | bb'- bb''' | 39.90 | |
| pennywhistle in a', small bore | a'-a''' | 39.90 | |
| pennywhistle set in d'', c'', & bb' one headjoint, three bodies, cloth bag |
79.80 | ||
| pennywhistle in g', large bore, two piece | g'-g''' | two piece tuning slide vinyl carrying bag |
66.90 |
| pennywhistle in f', large bore, two piece | f'-f''' | 66.90 | |
| pennywhistle in eb', large bore, two piece | eb'- eb''' | 86.90 | |
| pennywhistle in d', large bore, two piece | d'-d''' | 86.90 | |
| Instrument | Range | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| tabor pipe in d'' | d'''-f#'''' | two piece tuning slide clip-on thumbrest |
39.90 |
| tabor pipe in c'' | c'''-e'''' | 39.90 | |
| tabor pipe in bb' | bb''-d'''' | 39.90 | |
| tabor pipe set in d'', c'', & bb' one headjoint, three bodies, cloth bag |
79.80 | ||
| tabor pipe in a', small bore | a''-c#'''' | 55.90 | |
| tabor pipe in g', small bore | g''-b''' | 55.90 | |
| tabor pipe in f', large bore | f''-a''' | two piece tuning slide vinyl carrying bag |
86.90 |
| tabor pipe in eb', large bore | eb''-g''' | 86.90 | |
| tabor pipe in d', large bore | d''-f#''' | 86.90 | |
| Kelischek tabor pipe tutor | 8.95 | ||
Please note: we do not keep pentatonic recorders in stock, but will be happy to accept quantity orders for these instruments from educational institutions.
| Instrument | Features | Price |
|---|---|---|
| pentatonic sopranino recorder in c | two-piece, lowest note g | 39.90 |
| pentatonic sopranino recorder in bb | two-piece, lowest note f | 39.90 |
| pentatonic soprano recorder in g | two-piece, lowest note d | 39.90 |
| pentatonic soprano recorder in f | two-piece, lowest note c | 39.90 |
| pentatonic alto recorder in d | two-piece, lowest note a | 66.90 |
| pentatonic alto recorder in c | two-piece, lowest note g | 66.90 |
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