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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 2007/06

From: "Ed B. Flowers" <flowerse@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: 21 yr old Elizabeth Koch,Curtis dropout=ASO Principal
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:35:29 -0400

Carlberg,

Yes, I think this is true. Most Lorees have sharp Es and Gs, etc., but
they sound good. The oboes that are in tune don't have a tone that
sounds as good. I assume that this is a tradeoff, or an obsessively
perfectionist company like Loree would have been making oboes that
played all notes in tune long ago.

This situation is also true of clarinets. Take a tuning meter and play a
scale on a Buffet and the notes will all be slightly sharp or flat. But
Buffets have a beautiful dark tone. Do the same thing with a LeBlanc
(which has a different type of bore) and the notes are in tune, but the
tone is not as attractive.

The market seems to have chosen Lorees and Buffets over their competitor
instruments, so I assume that most people like dark, attractive tones
and are willing to lip the out-of-tune notes into tune.

Edward B. Flowers (ob, EH, cl, fl)
New York City

Carlberg Jones wrote:
>
> Is this to say than an oboe or clarinet must have an out of tune scale
> in order to have a nice tone?
>
> This seems illogical to me.
>
> We have to tune every note we play slower than some arbitrary speed,
> say, eighth notes at quarter = 120. The closer to a tempered scale the
> instrument has, the easier it is to do this.
>
> Now to get back to piano practice.
>
>
> At 1:18 PM -0400 6/16/07, Ed B. Flowers wrote:
>> I though all of us Loree players were supposed to be instinctively
>> lipping the notes in tune. Lipping notes in tune is also necessary on
>> dark-toned Buffet clarininets. Apparently out-of-tune scales are the
>> price that you pay for better tone. The in-tune oboes and clarinets
>> that I've played didn't have nearly as nice a tone.
>
>

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