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Theobald Boehm

Theobald Boehm

German inventor and musician
Theobald Böhm was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system. He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer. The fingering system he devised has... Wikipedia
Born: April 9, 1794, Munich, Germany
Died: November 25, 1881 (age 87 years), Munich, Germany
Children: Ludwig Böhm