Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2009/02

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:13 -0500

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:

> Third, it is obviously true that on any modern day clarinet that F Minor is
> both slightly easier to finger and has better sound/intonation/resonance,
> and the instrument IS brighter (the cutoff frequency curves of modern day
> B-flats is noticeably higher than that for A clarinets).

That's not so obvious to me. I don't know about the difference in
sound, but modern day Oehler-system clarinets use those same
non-forked fingerings for F# and C# in the clarion register the
Ottensteiners did.

"Moderne" Klarinetten sind nicht immer Boehmsystem.....

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