Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2010/11

From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Identify the instrument
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:43 -0500

I agree. I'd love to compare a top of the line German System to compare
side by side with my 1965 R-13, but the cost is prohibitive !

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USCA Woodwind Professor Retired
Aiken Prep, Director of Bands

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Christophe ASTIER <
christophe.astier@-----.fr> wrote:

> Hi John, and all friends,
>
> May be it just shows that even the Berliner Phils are able to become more
> flexible than they used to be...
>
> And by the way, we also had some evidence of it when, after fighting for a
> long time, they eventually
> accepted that women could join the orchestra... For that, we have to give
> credit to Herbert von, and to
> Sabine Meyer. Does it mean that the clarinet has some specific virtue of
> bringing civilisation into
> the most hostile territories ? Why not, after all....
>
> To be complete, I am not at all trying to compare the Boehm and German
> system, in terms of "quality",
> would it be because I have never tried the German system (I would love to,
> but I cannot really afford
> buying a fine German system clarinet to compare with my nice Buffet...).
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christophe.
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Brophy" <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:57 PM
> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Identify the instrument
>
> > OK! you're far more up to date than I am, but I do know of one Irish
> > player
> > who declined to change system when informed. We've an old concert band
> > (like
> > 100 years here, and all the over 70s played albert system in their youth.
> > They did change to Boehm, but German systems were unknown here, or else
> > they
> > would have opted for them.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Christophe ASTIER <
> > christophe.astier@-----.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> Not sure I fully agree with you where you say "but the Berlin Phil won't
> >> allow a Boehm system"
> >>
> >> May be I am wrong, but I think the french clarinetist Philippe Cuper has
> >> played a couple of month
> >> with the Berlin Phil, and sure he will not have switched from his
> >> Buffet's
> >> Boehm system to the german
> >> system just for that...
> >>
> >> Chistophe.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> From: "John Brophy" <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:29 PM
> >> To: "The Klarinet Mailing List" <klarinet@-----.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [kl] Identify the instrument
> >>
> >> >
> >> > The keywork looks far more like an oboe, but the bore doesn't look
> >> conical
> >> > enough. Maybe it's a German system clarinet? They're rare in Britain
> >> > and
> >> > Ireland, but the Berlin Phil won't allow a Boehm system. Similarly,
> >> > there
> >> > are famed bassoon makers like Puchner of Nauheim who also make
> >> > clarinets,
> >> > German system only. If you're in the US you mayn't realise the amount
> >> > of
> >> > national xenophobia about such matters. I know of German bandmasters
> >> > who
> >> > refused to use saxophones, because they were a Belgian invention.
> >> > (Didn;t
> >> > seem to matter that saxhorns were from the same source.). So if you
> >> search
> >> > for a German (Oehler??) system it may be the answer.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Can anyone tell me what the horn in the picture at the bottom of this
> >> >> page
> >> >> is?
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.europeanclarinetassociation.org/index.php?id=28
> >> >>
> >> >> It doesn't look like any form of a clarinet to me.
> >> >>
> >> >> Fred
> >> >>
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