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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Natural Horn vs Valved posted by Severius! Supremus Invictus on April 17, 2005 at 10:36:09:
both the simple-system Albert and the more complicated Oehler clarinet were the standards in German-speaking countries for most of the century, and into the next. The history of both of these types of clarinet is one of evolution, with the gradual addtion of keys and mechanisms. There is no one model of clarinet during this period that could be described as "modern and advanced"--you might as well say that about every new key and mechanism that came along.Brahms, like every other composer of his period, relied on his instrumentalists (for example, Richard Muehlfeld) to provide the most up-to-date instrument of the time. Depending on when the piece in question was composed, any number of clarinet models might be appropriate.
If by "advanced modern clarinet", you are referring to the Boehm system, that instrument was used mostly in France and England (and later in America), and has never made serious inroads into Central and Eastern Europe. Even today, the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic continue to proudly use the "deutsches System" (basically the Oehler system), a much more mellow and "romantic" sounding instrument than the Boehm, in my opinion.
I am not aware of any period instrumentalists, either here or in England, who advocate using "antiquated models". For the most part, people such as Charles Neidich (who is perhaps best known as the solo clarinetist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) have many different instruments at their disposal, and use exactly the model needed for the performance of Schubert, or Weber, or Brahms, or whatever.
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