Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2001-02-04 14:46
I saw Bjorling's basset clarinet in C fairly close up. Looks like a Boehm system with the extended fingerings (if, indeed, those extended fingering jobs are considered Boehm in the first place).
Saw Matt Darieau play once. Clarinet looked "normal", so it was probably a Boehm.
FWIW, I was at a Balkan music camp (in Maryland) a few summers ago. I met a highly experienced American reed player who used an Albert. He had had several of these over the years, worked on them himself, bought them for the usual reasons, i.e., authenticity. He confided that he was tired of all that, and tired of the difficult fingerings, and he was going to sell them all for a nice R13. Interestingly, the featured clarinetist at the camp, who was from Albania, spoke not a word of English, and played entirely by ear, used a Boehm. He didn't have a case for it, carried it around partially assembled in a shopping bag, but it was a Boehm.
Steve
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