Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2002/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 2 May 2002 "Turkish Clarinets"
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 11:46:19 -0400

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From: "William Wright" <w7wright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 2 May 2002 "Turkish Clarinets"

> The Albert system is still used in some European orchestras. I think
> (not sure) that a few German orchestras require it.
>
> Historically Albert preceeded the Boehm system. (and now I know that
> it's used in Turkey as well).

The modern German orchestras use a descendent of the Albert system that is
called the Oehler system.

And according to Rendall in "The Clarinet," the Albert system (1846) was
invented AFTER the Boehm system (1843). However the lineage is different.

Simple system @-----.

The Boehm system was adapted by Kose and Buffet to the clarinet and thus the
Boehm clarinet has no antecedents or descendents although there are variants
(i.e. full Boehm or some additional keys).

The Boehm system did not catch on right away as the most logical instrument
for a player of the Mueller system to follow up with would have been the
Albert as it would have been more familiar and comfortable. Even at that,
there were Mueller systems being made well into the late 1800s, some 50
years after the more advanced Albert made the scene.

It took decades for the Boehm system to be adopted and finally dominate the
clarinet scene.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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