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Straining my memory here, hoping someone can help me with the differences between the Plain Boehm system and the Full Boehm system for the B-flat clarinet.
Plain Boehm: 5 ringed fingerholes and ringed thumbhole. (#3 on left hand has no ring.) Preferred by the vast majority of orchestral clarinet players other than in Italy (where the Full Boehm is widely used) and in Germany and Austria (where non-Boehm instruments are preferred).
Full Boehm: 6 ringed fingerholes and ringed thumbhole. Left-hand key for a low E-flat. Forked Bb/Eb mechanism. Articulated G#/C# mechanism. In some cases, an extra key between #1 & #2 on right hand to operate the G#/C#. Popular in Italy, and among some jazz musicians, because of its greater facility in remote keys, but no longer offered by most major manufacturers.
I removed the following one and a half paragraphs (leaving, unfortunately, one half) because I believe most of what's stated in them is either wrong or confusing. My comments are in bracketed italics.
- Rsholmes 03:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed the following paragraphs:
During the early 1800's, others applied the fundamentals of the Boehm "system" to the clarinet. Hyacinthe Klose took the standard soprano clarinet pitched in Bb, adapted the ring and axle keywork system to correct serious intonation issues on both the upper and lower joints of the instrument, and added duplicate keys for the left hand and right hand little fingers to simplify several difficult articulations throughout the range of the instrument. Beginning in the 1830's, the Klose-Boehm clarinet started displacing the simple system clarinet and its derivatives, dating back to the turn of the century. By the early 1900's, virtually all clarinets used by performers outside of Germany, Austria, and Russia were of the Boehm system or one of its derivatives.
At roughly the same time, Adolphe Sax took the innovations offered by the Boehm system of keywork and applied them to the body of a bugle provided with a clarinet mouthpiece. By doing so, he created the family of instruments called saxophone, often described as being a hybrid of the woodwind and brass families. Starting with a bass saxophone pitched in C, he rapidly expanded the family to include members ranging from the sopranino in Eb to the contrabass in Eb.
Through the Boehm system of interconnections between finger locations and tone hole placement, Sax enabled the operation of huge toneholes located along the lengthy body of the instruments. While his original intent was to provide a family of instruments suitable for both wind band and orchestral use, saxophones are largely restricted to pop and jazz music.
-- Rsholmes 04:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I changed this:
"the openings where the various notes are emitted from a musical instrument"
to this:
"the openings where the fingers are placed to change the various notes on a musical instrument"
because the notes are not emitted from the tone holes, but from the blow hole. The tone holes simply change the tone. :) Just a small clarification.
Thanks! Sheila —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.66.141.145 (talk) 05:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm not really sure what this phrase is doing here, but the flute is definitely not the second-oldest musical instrument. Percussion, anyone? Before anyone thought to carve a hole and blow into a wooly mammoth's bone, you can be sure they were banging it on the cave walls. Everything has rhythm....not everything has pitch. Sorry to say. The flute is a fine instrument, but this is simply historically inaccurate. 128.62.46.215 (talk) 20:20, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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