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Re: Console Clarinet

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-06-11 14:30

I've been playing my Boehm and Oehler clarinets (Bb and bass) about equally these last few months, and in running through my orchestral excerpt books I've gotten the feeling that many of the German works (e.g. Brahms) are slightly easier fingering-wise on the Oehler system, while French works (e.g. Ravel) are easier on Boehm system. But on the average I agree with Chris M. that neither system seems inherently superior to the other.

Where there is a real difference is with the bass clarinets --- the Oehler-system bass clarinet has a much smaller bore than does the Boehm-system bass, and this makes a huge difference in how they sound and respond. The soprano clarinets, in contrast, have similar bore sizes (Oehler vs. Boehm) so the instruments feel and respond much more similarly to each other.

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