Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2011/07

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] albert?
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:01:41 -0400

Of course, if the Oehler system clarinets REALLY blended and sounded so much
better, EVERYONE would be using them. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder.

Dixieland players often DO play Albert clarinets. I think it is more
tradition than anything, and the fact that most Albert System clarinets have
large bores, in the .590 range. But so do many other clarinets, most
notably Series 9 and earlier Selmers and the Leblanc Pete Fountain model
(now known as Big Easy). Like anything else in life, trade-offs must be
made. "You pays your money and you takes your choice."

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin =

> Subject: Re: [kl] albert?
> =

> =

> On 11 Jul 2011, at 22:41, Finn Jespersen wrote:
> =

> =

> Hi Bill and List! I don=B4t think that one uses the Oehler system just
> because one does not want to use a french system! As far as I know the
> Oehler system is required in every german orchestra because it mixes
> better with the other woodwind instruments and because it sounds better
> than the Boehm system (more soft). In other words, they have another
> idiom! Isn=B4t that ok? Remember that some of the best clarinettists in
> the world plays the Oehler system, Sabine Meyer and Karl Leister!
> =

> > From: Martin Baxter, Ulverston, UK.
> =

> I have come across several 'Dixieland/trad. jazz ' players who also
> consider the Albert system and derivatives, of which I suppose the
> Oehler is one, have a distinctly better tone than the Boehm. It isn't
> only an Eastern European idea. Come to that the French bassoon, well
> played, sounds to my ears much better than the Almenraeder-Heckel; bt I
> still play that system (because it is easier to control and far less
> fussy about reeds). I know from IDRS that many American players would
> agree about the sound yet how many bassoonists on your side of the pond
> play the French system?
> Martin

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