Klarinet Archive - Posting 000635.txt from 1998/11

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: [kl] Re: A few "cents" worth please - was _[kl]_Concert_A_pitch,_again?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:46:12 -0500

Thanks for starting to explain "cent". I thought it was hundredths - but
then I hadn't thought about it much. Would the faculty here at Klarinet
University please expand on what this term means. We didn't do
electronic tuners when I was growing up - pitch forks with engraved
numbers on the side - no mention of cents. The pitch fork was A=440, I
remember. Thanks.
Paulette

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:02:55 -0800 David Renaud
<studiorenaud@-----.com> writes:
>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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