Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-09-20 08:40
"With an exception of string instruments most instruments became "perfected" in the period from 1800 to 1830's"
This is maybe misleading.
The years 1800 to 1840 certainly saw the introduction of modern keywork to woodwinds and of valves to brass. It was indeed the time of the most rapid evolution of these instruments, and maybe at the time the instruments were thought to have been perfected.
However, there have been many changes since. The Conservatoire oboe, Heckel bassoon and the double ("French") horn date from much later in the nineteenth century. The modern two-valve bass trombone, still far from standardised, is less than fifty years old.
The clarinet has changed much less; Klosé and Buffet did a pretty good job.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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