Klarinet Archive - Posting 000864.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] Re: A new concept in orchestral clarinets
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 08:51:05 -0400

WEll...

For a lot of this time, manufacturers have been producing other types of
flutes and oboes, for beginners, amateurs, and pros who didn't want to
change. Which do you think lived longest - the last player of the Pratten
flute, or the last player of the Clinton clarinet? I think, in fact,
Pratten flute players still live, though, admittedly, these instruments
seem not to be made any more.
Roger Shilcock
This is probably a pretty waffly topic...

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Steven J Goldman, MD wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 06:29:08 -0500
> From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <gpsc@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] Re: A new concept in orchestral clarinets
>
> I think it does hold up. While the basic fingerings have been around well
> over a century, flautists and oboe players gravitated to them pretty early
> on (with the exception of a few German schools), while the "Boehm" type
> system for the clarinet has been the undisputed standard for less than 75
> years. This thread began as an observation about the lack of vision of
> manufacturers, and I just suggested that this also applied to some clarinet
> players - with the important exemption of anyone on this list!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 3:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fw: [kl] Re: A new concept in orchestral clarinets
>
>
> >I don't think this proposition stands up. After all, the basic fingerings
> >now most widely used on oboe, flute and clarinet are now *all* well over a
> >century old.
> >Roger Shilcock
>

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