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  Theobald Boehm -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In addition, he was a virtuoso (Someone who plays the flute) flautist and was a Bavarian Court Musician as well as a celebrated (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer for the flute.
After making his own flute, he quickly became proficent enough to play in an orchestra at the age of eighteen and at twenty-one he was first flute in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.
In 1871 Boehm published "Die Flöte und das Flötenspiel" (The Flute and Flute-Playing), a treatise on the acoustical, technical and artistic aspects of the Boehm system flute.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/theobald_boehm.htm   (193 words)

  
 Articles - Flute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With rare exceptions (i.e., flutes with custom-made fingering-systems), the Boehm system is the fingering-system in correspondence with which Western concert flutes are designed and manufactured.
The standard concert flute is pitched in C and has a range of about 3 and a half octaves starting from middle C.
Theobald Boehm, The Flute and Flute-Playing (Dover Publications, 1964)
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 Encyclopedia: Theobald Boehm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Boehm System is a system of fingerings, created by inventor and flautist Theobald Boehm in the 1830s which was originally used on the flute and then on a variety of woodwind instruments, including the clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone.
A flutist demonstrates flute-playing technique A flutist is a musician who plays the flute.
Theobald Boehm at age 60 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Theobald-Boehm   (742 words)

  
 Musical Instruments and Sheet Music :: Time and Tune of Blackburn
The proportions of the bore and the placement of the note holes were also refigured.
At the start of the 20th century, four types of oboes prevailed: two French styles, a German type, and an instrument that incorporated the mechanical features devised for his flutes by Theobald Boehm.
By the middle of the century a hybrid model of the French types had become prevalent.
www.timeandtunemusic.co.uk /learn/oboe.html   (440 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Flutist Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Notable classical flute players include: Richard Adeney Julius Baker William Bennett Theobald Boehm - also inventor of mode...
The term flautist (based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence) is also used.
Theobald Boehm - also inventor of modern flute keying
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