Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-09-22 15:37
Full Boehm instruments have never been popular for one big reason, a reason having little to do with the playing qualities of such instruments.
They have (in the past) been a special order item, one not kept in stock when someone was looking to buy a clarinet. As a result, few have been able to try them (much less a range of them), and thus fewer still have had the opportunity to buy one.
Nowadays, with the shrinkage in the number of makers, only Amati (the Czech firm) produces them for sale "off of the rack". And, as always, they are not a "stock item", but rather one kept in limited numbers. No opportunity to try equals few opportunities to buy. (That Amati workmanship leaves a lot to be desired is an additional reason to vote no here.)
Quo erat demonstratum
I am eternally glad that I had the youthful foresight to special order both an A and a Bb full Boehm when I was a young sprout. As our Second Amendment people always say, you can have my full Boehm horns when you pry my cold, dead fingers from them...
Now, if only I had been able to win that auction for a Selmer Eb full Boehm horn a month or so ago. Missed it by that much...
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