Klarinet Archive - Posting 000578.txt from 1998/11

From: David Renaud <studiorenaud@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:_[kl]_Concert_A_pitch,_again?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:02:55 -0500

At A440, there is 4 cents between A439 and A440

> I let my students tune to my tuner but
> I
> first checked the pitch of the piano and (what do you know?) the piano was
> actually tuned FLAT by a few cents - the meter indicated 3 cents flat from
> A440,
> whatever that works out the be.
>
> > d) This worries people with an engineering or scientific background more
> > than musicians. (This is something I have observed locally.)
>
> I can second that - I'm an engineer and it does bother me somewhat. However,
> I'm learning that my ear and my voicing automatically adjust for intonation
> if I tune just a couple of cents sharp (it's easy to adjust down but nearly
> impossible to adjust up).
>
> Kevin Bowman
> Clarinet and Saxophone Instructor,
> Rochester Conservatory of Music, Rochester, MI
> and
> Saxophones, Clarinet and Flute,
> B-Side Blues Project
>
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