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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-11-19 23:51
As far as I know, there exist few players of the oehler clarinet outside of Germany and Austria. There was a time when quite a few players from Central European countries played them: Russia, Hungary... Yet this kind of clarinet has some incomparable qualitities. I don't think Karl Leister could have produced his tone on a Boehm clarinet. A few names of non-German Oehler players please. did they convert to it or was it their original instrument?
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Author: lmliberson
Date: 2025-11-20 00:12
Michele Zukovsky, LA Phil (retired). She switched from Boehm to Oehler in the 1970’s in the midst of her career with that orchestra.
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Author: mddds
Date: 2025-11-20 02:04
are we looking for professional player names in this discussion?
-CK
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2025-11-20 02:21
Frank Cohen had a dalliance with them and ultimately determined they were not what he was looking for. Marylin Bass of the Grant Park Symphony (and Lyric Opera?) played them for a year or so to perform the Mozart Concerto on basset clarinet back in the 70s when Wurlitzer (et al) where the only source for basset clarinets. I played on a pair of 100Cs for about 12 years.
I'd say that half "the sound" does reside within the acoustic of the horn, BUT the all important second part (particularly speaking of Leister's sound) lies with the mouthpiece/reed which at the time was traditionally a small tip opening, long facing (twice what French use) and..... A SOFT (#2 1/2) reed.
For me, the switching back was more about the mouthpiece/reed. I found out about the soft reed part much later, after abandoning the Oehlers. It would have helped to have known that last part before switching back, but I think because I spent most of my playing years on Boehm, that was just the most comfortable way to go in the end.
.................Paul Aviles
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