Klarinet Archive - Posting 001233.txt from 2000/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oehler/Boehm sections
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:27:28 -0400

I don't think the genuine Oehler system - as opposed to some of its
ancestors and relatives - has ever been widely used in the U.K. Some
players do use German and German-style Schmidt-Boehm instruments, though.
Roger s.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Elizabeth Owens wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:23:32 GMT
> From: Elizabeth Owens <elizow@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Oehler/Boehm sections
>
> Hello all,
>
> Being a born-and-bred Boehm system clarinettist, my knowledge of the
> legendary 'Oehler system' instruments is limited, to say the least. This is
> not helped by the apparent extinction of this instrument in Britain (in my
> neck of the woods at least). My tentative question to the list is: Are
> there any orchestral clarinet sections, world-wide, containing clarinettists
> who use more than one system (i.e. Principal clarinettist using Boehm, 2nd
> using Oehler), and if not, why not? I am aware of the essential tonal
> differences due to bore-size, set-up etc., but not whether they are
> incompatible within a section.
>
> My apologies if this topic has cropped up before...
>
> Liz
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