Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 2001/08
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Ancient Albert Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:27:27 -0400
At 10:38 AM 8/18/2001 -0400, Dee Hays wrote:
>Per F. Geoffrey Rendall's "The Clarinet," the Albert system was developed
>in 1846. It was actually developed *after* the Boehm system (Rendall gives
>1843 for that development).
>
> From looking at horns on eBay and in books and checking dates when=
possible,
>the older M=FCller system and even simple system horns continued to be made
>and sold in significant numbers for many decades after the introduction of
>the Albert and Boehm systems.
Changes like that don't happen overnight! I notice the QWERTY keyboard is=
=20
still being made, despite the introduction of the "superior" Dvorak=20
type. And musicians can be EXTREMELY set in their ways!
Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265
If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
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