Klarinet Archive - Posting 000660.txt from 1998/11

From: David Renaud <studiorenaud@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:_[kl]_Concert_A_pitch,_again?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:21:34 -0500

David Renaud wrote:

> At A440, there is 4 cents between A439 and A440
> Correction-- 2 Cents not 4

A440Hz--A#466.16Hz is divided into 100 cents on an exponential curve.

> > 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
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------