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Re: Full Boehm disadvantages

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-03-23 02:18

The "missing" long altissimo F

TRXXX(G#)|XXX

does not go away on a Full Boehm clarinet with an articulated G#, you simply use the "other" (throat) G# key to provide the extra "register vent."

TR(G#)XXX|XXX

It takes a day or a week to get used to using the throat G# key, but it works!

That reduces the disadvantages of the Full Boehm to just about zilch, nada!

The double duty demanded of the bridge mechanism (to both close the G#/C# tone hole and to press down the Eb/Bb "bis" key makes it less robust.

I've been off of my full Boehm clarinet for a couple of years now, and am still experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

The left hand Eb/Ab key is really nice in that it eliminates both sliding and marking of your fast parts to warn you to play the previous note with your left pinky. BUT simply having the mechanism does not remove the "woodpile" problems of filling in the gap between the octaves of a clarinet.

The forked Ab is totally cool for Ab/Bb trills --and that passage in Kv 622's first movement, ...

In slow passages, I still reach for the right hand C#/G# sliver key.

Bob Phillips

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