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The Boehm system is a system of keywork for the flute, created by inventor and flautist Theobald Boehm between 1831 and 1847. [1] [2] [3] History.
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.
Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system"). He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer.
The most common system of keys was named the Boehm system by its designer Hyacinthe Klosé after flute designer Theobald Boehm, but it is not the same as the Boehm system used on flutes. [58] The other main key system is the Oehler system, which is used mostly in Germany and Austria. [16]
Wurlitzer Reform Boehm clarinets in B♭ and A with additional mechanisms. The Reform Boehm system is a fingering system for the clarinet based on the Boehm system.It was developed to produce clarinets with the Boehm keywork but with a sound similar to a German clarinet.
Boehm's key system, with minor variations, remains regarded as the most effective system of any modern woodwind, allowing trained instrumentalists to perform with facility and extraordinary velocity and brilliance in all keys. The modern flute has three octaves plus C 7 –C ♯ 7 –D 7 in the fourth octave.
The company is the world market leader in the production of clarinets of the Boehm system. Its subsidiary, Buffet Crampon Deutschland GmbH, founded in 2010 and based in Markneukirchen, Vogtland, Sachsen, is the world market leader in the manufacture of brass instruments.
The company keys its clarinets according to the German Oehler system and the French Boehm system as well as in a combination of both systems, starting from the Boehm system (so-called modular design).