Klarinet Archive - Posting 000524.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Tuning?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:46:05 -0400

Oh, I thought that the person tried what he thought was the instrument's
concert A against the Seiko A.......gosh, and I thought I was so smart for
thinking it was a C clarinet!

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Justin Wood wrote:

> 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>
> To: klarinet@-----.us>
> 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
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649
>
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