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RE: German System Learning Curve?

Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-02-17 20:55

As above I am an Oehler system player and I started on an Albert. I was somewhat co-erced into playing the Boehm system in the army and got used to it. I went back to the simple system as quick as I could. I have always played Boehm in some way mainly testing repairs in the workshop. I lose quite a bit technically in the switch to Boehm but I do actually use correct Boehm fingerings. On the rare occasson I play alto or bass I can play Boehm fingerings comfortably as the technical demands are generally not as high. These days I play mainly sax with clarinet double and also play the bassoon so fingering changes are not as big a drama as for a dedicated clarinettist. In my biased opinion everybody should be playing German system.

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