Author: javier garcia m
Date: 2003-05-18 13:01
Clarence, There are two main different oboe system, the french, known as Conservatory, and the Viennoise (almost only play in Vienna, Austria). Is similar to the case of clarinets (Boehm and German) and bassoons (french and german or heckel). These differences count not only for fingerins but fore bore shape and other critical dimensions.
In the case of french oboes, there are variations as the full automatic, half automatic, thumb plate system, italian system and so on. But all of these are under the same conception with same minor changes on fingerings.
There were other attemps to adapt the Boehm system to oboes as it has been referred by Don in other post, but, in general terms, all of them have failed.
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The Oboe BBoard
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