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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2007/06

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: 21 yr old Elizabeth Koch,Curtis dropout=ASO
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:41:53 -0400

What? Corni do not play in tune without having to listen?
Herb

On 6/16/07 3:17 PM, "Carlberg Jones" <carlbergjones@-----.mx> 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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