Klarinet Archive - Posting 000389.txt from 1997/01

From: FROM ME MAN <musicandkeyclub@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Tuning again
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:21:41 -0500

I believe that "P4" is 'a perfect fourth'...

;-)

Kenneth Chin
New York Youth Symphony
Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:36:23 -0500 Benedict Lockwood
<100543.2442@-----.COM> writes:
>Thanks for the replies about tuning the clarinet. And the discussion
>on 440
>vs 442.
>Now excuse my ignorance but...
>
> " The best way to tune, on my opinion, is therefore to FIRST
>tune
>the throat tones (probably pick a note that is a P4 below the tuning
>note) at the barrel or mouthpiece, and then tune the longer-length
>notes
>(the given tuning note) at the middle joint"
>
>What do you mean by P4?
>
>And to Steve formally from Zuerich, Where are you now then?
>
>Benedict (Arlesheim, Switzerland)
>