Klarinet Archive - Posting 000803.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bb3/C3 trill and trills generally
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 04:15:00 -0400

Re Boehm; the flute with the rings was not the model we know and love(?)
now, but the previous effort of ca. 1832, which still had the reversed
cone bore. As many writers (including, notoriously, Rockstro) have stated,
Boeham was not the first to make use of them anyway.
rjs

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Lee Hickling wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:01:54
> From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Bb3/C3 trill and trills generally
>
> Kevin Fay remarked that he
> > played a teacher's "full Boehm"--a clarinet with a whole gaggle of
> >extra keys, extending down to Eb. This, I believe, was Klose's design.
> >Most clarinets sold today are the 17 key/6 ring variety, which is basically
> >a winnowing down of the entire system to what (the market thinks) is
> >"necessary."
>
> I have never seen an original edition of Klose's Celebrated Method. The
> oldest one I have is the 1898 edition revised by C.L. Staats. The pictures
> of Mr. Staats and his clarinet show a standard Boehm system instrument,
> except that the register key hole is on top. The fingering charts, which I
> think are Staats' work, and the discussions in the book, mainly written by
> Klose for a revised edition, also suggest that it is a 17-key, 6-ring
> clarinet that they are talking about. (Please imagine that the final e on
> Klose has an acute accent.)
>
> So I cannot be certain, but I have always believed that the "full Boehm"
> clarinet was a later invention, perhaps by Klose, but more likely by
> someone else -- Buffet, maybe? I'm 70 miles from the nearest good library,
> and the Internet hasn't been helpful today on that question. Does anyone
> know for sure?
>
> In any case, Klose and Buffet's great innovation was not adding four keys
> to the 13 then in common use. That had already been done in various ways.
> What they did was adapt Boehm's system of moveable rings for flutes, to the
> clarinet. Boehm. a Swiss, seems to have had nothing to do with the changes
> the two Frenchmen made in clarinet mechanisms. Klose, who taught at the
> French Royal Conservatory, thought Boehm's innovative flutes were so great
> that clarinets should have Boehm-style rings. Auguste Buffet Jr. made the
> first clarinets that used them.
>
> I've always thought it was interesting that Boehm's name is not mentioned
> once in all the self-promoting prose Hyacinthe Klose wrote to preface his
> clarinet method. It's a sort of poetic justice that his system is called
> Boehm and not Klose, or Buffet..
>
>
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