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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2007/10

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Play loud ...and louder!
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:25:15 -0400

"Euphorium" players are notoriously deaf in general. Everything sounds so
damnably romantic. Actually I never heard one with a pitch center I could
find.
Herb

On 10/4/07 4:34 PM, "Jon Julian" <jon@-----.com> wrote:

> Ah, yes - the tuning terrors. I have a suspicion that when the oboist
> sounds a pitch and people jump in immediately, each louder than the
> other (that's not ultimately really possible, is it?) - each is
> trying to impose or assert their pitch center - I was taught to
> listen for a moment and then try to quietly adjust to the pitch - but
> that was some years ago in a perhaps less self-centered society. But
> as an aside, in my clarinet days I knew that on one of my instruments
> my tuning "A" had to be a little bit one way or the other, I forget
> now, for the instrument in general to be tuned to the pitch center.
> Of course we have to remember that every note needs to be tuned/
> played with the idea that it will need adjustment to be just right,
> both because 1) all of the notes on even our fine instruments cannot
> be built exactly in tune and 2) their function in the harmonic
> structure makes a difference every time we play them, and 3) if
> someone else is a little "out" and can't/won't adjust, we must either
> do it or become the perpetrators of fingernails on the chalkboard.
> (One of my pet peeves in years of band playing has been that the
> bassoon is often paired with the - well, I call it euphemistically
> and ironically the "euphorium", whose pitch tendencies on several
> notes are just opposite from the bassoon, and whose players for
> whatever reason simply do not seem to be able to hear the bassoon.
>
> I think I have succeeded in repeating what everyone else has said -
> guess lots of us need to get these exasperations off our chests.
>
> Jon Julian
>
>
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