Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2003/02

From: "Dee D. Flint" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] vintage Buffet "A" clarinet
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:31:15 -0500

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From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] vintage Buffet "A" clarinet

> Thanks.....I am not finding a serial number anywhere on this thing.
> mine does not have the rollers....it DOES have all the same keys
> and rings as the modern clarinet, so I am wondering when they
> began making them that way.
> Sue
>

The key system that we use today in the US and much of the rest of the world
is called the Boehm system. According to Rendall's book on the clarinet, it
was developed in the 1840s.

Of course it can take quite a long time for people to actually make the
change so there were people using the older systems even into the early
1900s.

Dee Flint, MI

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