Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 1996/10

From: Ian M Dilley <imd@-----.uk>
Subj: tuning - clarinets and pianos
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:56 -0400

A short while ago there was some discussion about the clarinet sounding bad
with a piano. Jonathan Cohler says that the partials on a clarinet are
flat. I know that the partials on a piano are sharp. Worse, than that
octaves on a piano are tuned beatless so the pitch runs sharp towards the
top an flat towards the bottom. Could this be why some people don't like
the sound of a clarinet and piano together? How on earth can a clarinet be
in tune with a piano?

Ian D.