Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-06-04 17:30
Having played German system (of which Oehler instruments are a subset), I agree with John that the traditional mouthpieces are as critical to the "German sound" as the rest of the instrument. We shouldn't think of that sound as monolithic, though, as one can hear quite clearly by listening to recordings of Leister and Jost Michaels back to back. I recently bought the complete Furtwängler 1939 - 1945 recordings from the Philharmoniker. There's one concert from 1944 with the Freischutz Overture, the two Daphnis suites, and the Pastorale, where the sound is certainly "dark" and "centered," but wouldn't be especially out of place in a modern American orchestra. The oboe was a lot more "cosmopolitan" than Lothar Koch, too. On switching between German and Boehm system, it could certainly be done with a lot of mindfulness, but nearly the same effect could be accomplished with less worry by switching between a Reform Boehm with a German mouthpiece, and a French bore with the kind of mouthpiece most of us are used to. I've heard of people playing German system bass and Boehm soprano clarinets, though, and there are excellent reasons for doing that.
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