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Re: Oboe vs clarinet options

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-08-10 19:57

Oboes and clarinets have around the same amount of toneholes (24 for a clarinet and from 22 to 25 for an oboe), but the clarinet mechanism is far simpler and many of the toneholes are duplicated on clarinets whereas oboes mainly have one tonehole per note and have the mechanism designed to allow semitone and whole tone trills on nearly every note.

The only keywork option you're most likely to find on clarinets nowadays is the LH Ab/Eb lever, but the big name makers used to offer that as well as the LH forked Eb/Bb mechanism (so Eb/Bb can be played as xox|ooo), articulated C#/G# (so the trill can be done by holding down the C#/G# key and trilling with RH2) and also low Eb - either as options on their own along with the standard keywork, or a full Boehm clarinet with 20 keys and 7 rings having all those extras on the one instrument.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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