fingering system. Klosé invented a system for the clarinet that today is the standard nearly worldwide (except Austria, Germany and others). Boehm was his inspiration, and so Klosé named the new system the Boehm system just like the modern western flute. The Boehm system clarinet and flute are not exactly the same. If one plays the clarinet with the register key on, the fingerings are the same as the flute when the flute is in the lower and middle register. The main differences between the fingering systems of Boehm system clarinets and flutes are overblowing and key. The clarinet's second register is a twelfth above its lowest register, unlike the flute's which is an octave higher. The B clarinet is a transposing instrument, so a C on a clarinet is played as a B on the flute. Selected works Grand Polonaise in D Major, Op. 16 Variations sur un air tyrolien, Op.20 Fantasie sur un air de F. Schubert, Op.21 Variations sur un Air Allemand, Op.22 24 Caprices-etudes, Op.26 Souvenir des Alpes, Opp.27–32 Andante for Flute and Piano, Op.33 24 Etudes, Op.37 Elégie, Op.47 See also Friedrich Dülon Justus Johannes Heinrich Ribock References External links Alto flute, Boehm and Mendler, Munich, ca. 1880 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Flute and Flute-Playing in Acoustical, Technical, and Artistic Aspects The Flute and Flute-Playing in Acoustical, Technical, and Artistic Aspects (Kindle Edition) On the construction of flutes 1794 births 1881 deaths German classical flautists German Romantic composers 19th-century German inventors Flute makers German musical instrument makers 19th-century classical composers German male classical composers 19th-century German composers 19th-century German male musicians 20th-century flautists