Klarinet Archive - Posting 000512.txt from 1998/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Tuning?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:31:42 -0400

It never occurred to me to do this before: that is, check the tuning on the
clarinet.

I have one of those Seiko quartz metronomes with a tuning A pitched at 440.
When I tested the clarinet's A against the metronome's, I was a full tone
flat. Playing a B gave me a perfectly matched note.

So...ignorance is not bliss...is this in fact a B-flat clarinet or am I
dealing with something else? Remember, I inherited this thing, and when I
got it in 1991, all I knew was that there were B-flat, E-flat, and bass
clarinets. I didn't know about basset horns, altos, or A clarinets.

Is something possibly wrong with the horn or is this not what I thought?

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

   
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