Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] GermansoundBoehm clarinex
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:03:59 -0500

I would think that all clarinets are clarinetsound. That the
glass harmonica was built by Franklin in America does not make it
an Americansound.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Stackpole [mailto:jstackpo@-----.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:50 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] GermansoundBoehm clarinex

Well since T. Boehm was German (Bavarian):

http://www.flutehistory.com/Players/Theobald_Boehm/index.php3

aren't all clarinets (and flutes, too, for that matter)
"Germansound"?

Granted, a couple of Frenchmen stole his ideas for their reed &
hollow
stick instruments, but translating Goethe, say, into English
doesn't
make him any less of a German. (Or any more readable.)

JDStackpole

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