Klarinet Archive - Posting 000566.txt from 1997/06

From: fersilv@-----.net
Subj: Re: QUESTION ABOUT PITCH
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:34:48 -0400

I realy don't know if I can help you but I will try.
My instrument is RC Prestige Bb and A(french bore). On my Bb I use
66mm barrel and on A I use 64mm barrel. I use it completely close on both.
On the A, of course, I have to open after the the horn became warm.
Another point is the mouthpiece. My mouthpiece is made from Greg
Smith from Chicago. He made diferents mouthpieces for 442 and 440 pich.
So maybe you could try another mouthpiece(B45 or another) to compare.

Regards

Fernando Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil
Chamber Music Professor - Rio de Janeiro Ferderal University

At 00:54 26/06/97 +0200, you wrote:
>hello all clarinet-lovers,
>
>I hope you are all doing well!! At the moment I'm playing (ao.) Bolero
>(Ravel): the Eb part... We are conducted by jaap van zweden (violinist,
>former concertmeister of the Concertgebouw Orchestra-Amsterdam). OK, I have
>a serious question:
>Our clarinet group (of the Brabant orchestra in Eindhoven-the netherlands)
>is plying on Buffets Elites clarinets and B40 mp (and vandoren french cut
>#3). We had two different sized barrels with the clarinets and we are using
>the long ones. But, whlie plying, we have to put the barrel out for aprox.
>4-6 mm. I find that very much, and this is, to play on a 442-443Hz A.
>What I want is to have an instrument on wich I can play with the short
>barrel (and only max 3 mm. out) a A@-----.
>
>My question: your instruments (the Buffets made for the US market) are
>pitched for A@-----. Could you be so kind and play on a warm
>"horn"and play a few notes with a tuner. Take a short barrel, and what do
>you get?
>
>My point is: I want to know if it is probably the case, that when you play
>on a short barrel, on a warm intrument, you perhaps play 442/443. If that
>is the case, I will think about maybe purchasing a American-pitched Buffet
>(Vintage or R13)...
>But: it has to be, that I can play on that intrument with an A@-----.
>
>Becaus": I want to play on short barrels and with no more than 2/3 mm.
>barrel-out. I think that is the ideal position for the tuning of the
>intrument 9especcially the throught notes causes very much problems in our
>group, due to the long barrel and the quite much milimeters out of the
>barrel)
>
>(Sorry for my bad English..I hope you kind folks can understand my
>question).
>
>Maybe you have other ideas, suggestions etc. concerning this fact.
>I find it quite frustrating, always to think notes low on the clarinet, I
>mean: I should be much easier when not all the notes are to high on the
>clarinet, and: its quite frustrating to have the throught-notes so
>low...very difficult in forte-passages.
>
>Well,
>
>happy playing, music-listening,
>
>yours,
>jeroen T. Salm
>The Netherlands
>
>
>