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RE: For Oehler Experts

Author: Daniel
Date: 2001-07-16 04:56

There is a Selmer clarinet pictured on the cover of one issue of The Clarinet from a couple of years back. I'll have to dig up the article. The picture was actually a mural on the side of a Holiday Inn in New Orleans. But it talked about the clarinet itself.

Ah.. Here is it. It's on the cover of Volume 24, Issue 2 (Feb-Mar 1997) It is simply modified Albert system. The one on the cover has a third ring on the lower joint. The one in the article (used as a model for the mural) dates to the 20's. So it was still a time when Albert system was in prominent use among jazz and poorer players. Yet Boehm system was gaining more acceptance and makers were offering it as more of a standard. I believe Selmer made these as a compromise for players who wanted to keep the Albert finerings yet wanted some of the benefits of the extra trills and rings on the Boehm.

Daniel

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