The Flute and Flute Playing Boehm TheobaldPaperback
The Flute and Flute Playing Boehm TheobaldPaperback The flute (or closely related instrument) has been known since prehistoric times, but up until the middle of the nineteenth century it was still…
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The Flute and Flute Playing Boehm TheobaldPaperback
The flute (or closely related instrument) has been known since prehistoric times, but up until the middle of the nineteenth century it was still far from being a satisfactory instrument, despite the quantity of important music that had been written for it. Boehm worked upon the flute for many years; indeed, he even went to the length of studying acoustics at the University of Munich, in order to apply the exact data and principles of the sciences to instrument design. Its tone was poor and thin, its volume was low, its keying system was inefficient, and it was very difficult to play.The man who changed all this and invented the modern flute was Theobald Boehm (1794-1881), a Bavarian flute virtuoso, who played at the royal court in Munich.
It was silver and cylindrical, furnished with a After many years of experimentation and preliminary steps, he created the modern flute in 1847.