Klarinet Archive - Posting 000340.txt from 2004/01

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] American move to the Boehm system
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:32:35 -0500

<< Gibson stated that most early Mueller and Albert instruments lacked
Oehler's mechanism, and therefore
Alberts and Muellers never attained "full equality" with Boehms >>

I suspect he was referring to flexibility of passagework, rather than
quality of sound or intonation. My impression is that Albert- and
Mueller-system clarinets are by no means fully chromatic in the same sense
as the Boehm instrument. Oehler-system is much better (but probably still
not quite as good as Boehm).

-- Joe

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