Klarinet Archive - Posting 000266.txt from 2004/01

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] American move to the Boehm system
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:56:48 -0500

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DATE: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:39:00
From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
To: klarinet@-----.org
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>Aad Overeem wrote:
>
>I found this message to be a particularly useful one. While the
>opinions players who play one or the other are always interesting, they
>are sometimes biased towards the system they use.
>
>But here, the opinion of an indiviual who went from one system to the
>other and can contrast them in more meaningful ways eliminates a great
>deal of bias. Now what I would like to hear is someone who went from a
>Boehm system to an Oehler system. Did not the prinipal player in the LA
>Phil do that?
>
>Dan
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Yes, Michele Zukovsky LA Phil. changed from Boehm to Oehler starting with the mouthpiece. I don't think she'll mind if I say when I visited her in LA (1970's) coming from England with my GR Uebel bassetized clarinets, she said, had she known that a boehm clarinet could sound so "German" she would never have changed to Oehler system. On the other hand, I tried her Wurlitzers and found they had a much different feeling to them than my Uebel German-Boehms (before they were bassetized). That's one reason I ended up buying Wurlitzer Reform-Boehms.

I also started out on Buffet Boehms and changed to Reform-Boehm. I never really changed fingering systems though, only added the German system to my repertoir with the basset horn.

I think the mouthpiece change was a far more significant change than the fingering system. The fingering change is only an inconvenience. The mouthpiece/reed change opened up a whole new world of tonal/expressive possibilities!
-David

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