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Fingering charts can be found for example in this reference. [1] In the case of finger systems for the clarinet, which are based on the Oehler system, one speaks today mostly of the German system, and of finger systems that are based on the Boehm system (clarinet), of the French system.
Two-key clarinet with fingering chart, from Museum musicum theoreticalo practicum, 1732 Denner clarinet Sketch of the basset clarinet used by Anton Stadler since 1789 and a replica. The clarinet has its roots in early single-reed instruments used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. [64]
The Boehm system for the clarinet is a system of clarinet keywork, developed between 1839 and 1843 by Hyacinthe Klosé and Auguste Buffet jeune.The name is somewhat deceptive; the system was inspired by Theobald Boehm's system for the flute, but necessarily differs from it, since the clarinet overblows at the twelfth rather than the flute's octave.
Reform Boehm clarinet in B♭ Herbert Wurlitzer escaped from East Germany in 1959 with his family into the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he built a manufactory for the production of clarinets, as he had learned from his father in Erlbach, Vogtland. [3] [4] He managed the company until his death in 1989 together with his wife Ruth Wurlitzer.
Most modern alto clarinets, like other instruments in the clarinet family, have the Boehm system or Oehler system of keys and fingering, which means that this clarinet has virtually identical fingering to the others. The alto clarinet, however, often has an extra key allowing it to play a low (written) E ♭, and a half-hole key controlled by ...
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The Albert system refers to a system of clarinet keywork and fingering developed by Eugène Albert. In the United Kingdom, it is known as the simple system. It has been largely replaced by the Boehm system and Oehler system. Big Band musician Jimmy Dorsey used a clarinet outfitted with the Albert system.