Klarinet Archive - Posting 001301.txt from 2004/03

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] German bass clarinet bore
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:23:04 -0500


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DATE: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:31:53
From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
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>I have just measured an Oscar Oehler bass clarinet from the early 20th
>century and it is 19.9 mm. Around 1970 I changed from doing a lot of
>orchestral playing on an old low-Eflat French bass clarinet, to a German
>system small bore instrument. To me the Boehm instrument had the bigger
>sound, but actually the German instrument carried much better both to the
>conductor and to the audience. Nick
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Hi Nick,
I agree that the narrow bore instruments tend to carry well. I enjoy the sound more too. As Alan once put it, it sounds more like a clarinet. That much more of a pity that more and more German orchestra players are starting to use Boehm bass clarinets (mainly Selmer). Another strange thing is the so called bel canto bass clarinet which has a "Boehm bore" and German system fingering. That seems to me to be the worst of both worlds.
David

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