Klarinet Archive - Posting 000146.txt from 2010/01

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] full boehm
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:17:02 -0500

I suspect that like most things, the term "full Boehm clarinet" has
different meanings to different people. I owned two full Boehm clarinets
and played on them for years. Each instrument had the following items that
were unique to a full Boehm instrument some 30 years ago, but some of which
are now on the traditional clarinet.

They are:

1. low E-flat (written) which is the note called for on a B-flat
clarinet in Peter and the Wolf;
2. a-flat (lower register)/e-flat (upper register) key with left hand
pinky touchpiece, giving those notes on both sides of the clarinet;
3. articulated b-natural/c-sharp in the low register, and
f-sharp/g-sharp in the upper register (this for use in the notorious
f-sharp/g-sharp trill in the opera Carmen; i.e., the smuggler's music which
begins with a bassoon solo and then is duplacted in the clarinet; last
weekend it was played live from the Met in NY, and whoever played it did not
have the articulated key; the intonation on that trill was very suspect
because of that instrument's deficiency;
4. g/b-flat tremulo in the upper register; it is supposed to work for a
c/e-flat in the lower register too, but the intonation on my instruments for
that tremulo was not satisfactory; didn't use that facility very much..

Mazzeo always told me that such instruments had intonation difficulties but
I did not find this to be the case.

I sold both instruments -- alone with an apendage that allowed the clarinet
to descend to low d -- to a Japanese man.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
To: "klarinetlijst" <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:11 PM
Subject: [kl] full boehm

>
> what is a "full boehm" clarinet? One with a low e flat key, or are there
> other differences compared to the "normal" boehm?
>
> Rien
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