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Re: Full Clarinet 21 keys - advice and opinions

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2014-10-24 22:45

Hi Mirko the answer is probably no - a Full Boehm not necessarily better.
Yes the extra mechanism can come in useful in some technical passages but the vast majority of players today professional and amateur use the standard Boehm system.
The downside of full Boehm is mainly that since there are relatively few of them around you get little choice of instrument so your chances of finding a "good" one are lower.

I have several clarinets ranging from standard to full Boehm and all the intermediate stages.
I personally find that the fork Eb/Bb is the most useful extra but the articulated C#/G# means that the tonehole is in it's correct place and gives a much better note.

The LH Ab/Eb I do not like (but many others players do) and the low Eb is very rarely called for although it does mean that the E/F tones tend to be much nicer notes as a result.

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