Klarinet Archive - Posting 000659.txt from 2001/07

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Point of curiosity
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:41:56 -0400

Cindy Christensen wrote:

> I have thought about this question a lot and have come to the conclusion
> that you can't really tell which system one is playing if both are
> played equally well. The only differences may be certain idiosyncrasies
> of the instruments themselves. With the years, the differences have
> become less too.

- snip -

Around 1983 I had some lessons with Karl Schlechta, solo clarinetist, SWF
(now: SWR) radio orchestra Baden-Baden (now: and Freiburg). He once exclaimed
to me that if he closed his eyes when I was playing he could swear I was
playing an Oehler clarinet. (It was reform-Boehm with German mouthpiece)

David

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