Klarinet Archive - Posting 001305.txt from 2004/03

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] German bass clarinet bore
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:54:39 -0500

Am 23.03.2004 12:09 Uhr schrieb "H. de Nijs" unter <h.denijs@-----.nl>=
:

> Nick,
>=20
> I have measured the bore of my Fritz Wurlitzer bass in german system till
> low C from 1964: 19,4 mm. Sound is small, focussed and very sonore. I lov=
e
> it very much.
> As Glenn said also in Holland quite a lot of players are switching to the
> boehm bass (Selmer or Buffet), maybe also due to the very high prices for
> the german system (Oehler or reform-boehm). Also the firm Johanna Krontha=
ler
> offers recently a bass clarinet till low C in german system but with a wi=
der
> (boehm) bore.=20
> See www.kronthaler-klarinetten.de. (German language)
>=20
> Hans =20

Hello Hans,

Ihave not found this bass clarinet on the homepage but as far as I know
Belcanta(Amati) makes a German Clarinet with Boehm bore!

Gru=DF Georg K=FChner

Georg K=FChner
Klarinetten, Saxophone
Salonorchester an der P=E4dagogischen Hochschule HD
alias "Heidelberger Saloniker"

Telefon 0621 527962
Mobiltelefon 0179 7762757

Georg.Kuehner@-----.de
georg@-----.de

www.heidelberger-saloniker.de

Schulstr.19
67059 Ludwigshafen
Deutschland

>=20
>> 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 th=
e
>> conductor and to the audience. Nick
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>=20
> 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 start=
ing
> 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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