Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 1998/04

From: "Justin Wood" <olio555@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Tuning?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:44:40 -0400

You have to transpose. The A is for tuning an instrument in C...if you play
an instrument in Bb, you have to go to a B...that is your tuning note.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 10:18 AM
Subject: Tuning?

>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@-----.net
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