Klarinet Archive - Posting 000525.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Tuning?
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:46:06 -0400

Ken,

It is very possible that you have a C clarinet! This reminds me of my
garage sale experience about 12 years ago. I stopped at a garage sale (I
love 'em!) and spied a clarinet case. I opened it up, and inside was a
beautiful Leblanc, wood clarinet - silver keys, mint condition instrument
and case........the mouthpiece was still wrapped in plastic!

I asked the guy what he was selling it for, and he said that he had been
given it by his brother in law for his girl - who had started band the
year prior. He said that she took it to school, but that it was so out of
tune, that the band director said to go to the music store and rent to
own. Of course, he didn't know it, but he was the proud owner of a
Leblanc C clarinet.....and I got it for 50 bucks.

Maybe you are so lucky??

Roger Garrett
IWU

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Kenneth Wolman wrote:

> 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
>