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Author: ClarinetConnoisseur
Date: 2005-07-10 15:03
I've always wondered how many different systems clarinets come in. I know about the Boehm, Oehler, and Albert systems, but when I've looked up the topic on the internet, I've also heard about a Muller and Clinton system. I'm not sure if they are real or not. Are there any more "unknown" systems out there? Just curious....
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2005-07-11 09:10
I wonder if many people know much about anything other than the Boehm system.
The fingering of the Oehler, Albert and Clinton systems is just about the same. Even the Clinton system with the Barrett Action is mostly the same jsut with an articulated mechanism for F/C speaker key and side key Eb/Bb. Other variations include venting or not venting F# and the number of trill keys. Left pinky alternates also vary from the Ab/Eb cheat key, and a sort of clarinet left hand F. A clarinets often require slight variations such as vent ing high C#, D and D# which is not necessary on some B flats.
These systems are extensions of the original chalumeaux and early clarinets, distinguished by the addition of throat and register keys based on a 6 hole fingering pattern. The low B natural or F sharp over the break are fingered with the right hand first finger and the B flat /F natural require, in the early forms the fork fingering and later forms fork or 5 fingers plus the sliver key. This is the fingering pattern employed by oboes and bassoons as well as flutes prior to Boehm's experiments from the late 1820's. They are all inherently the same. As an Oelher system player I am using the same fingering pattern as clarinettists in the time of Mozart.
The experiments of Boehm, Klose et. al. involved re-inventing the whole system of hole placement to achieve some sort of accoustic nirvana. The Boehm system bassoon and oboe have been rejected because they sound awful. The clarinet and flute have been slightly more effective. There has also been an experiment, known as the Octavin, which attempts to make a clarinet overblow at the octave.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2005-07-11 14:10
I find it interesting that someone would try to make a clarinet that overblew at the octave. I thought that the cylindrical bore caused it to have odd numbered partials, and that it was part of the distinctive sound. I would think that if it was changed to have even numbered partials it would lose it's character and not sound like a clarinet. Correct me if I'm wrong?
Christopher Nichols
1st Infantry Division Band
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