Klarinet Archive - Posting 000662.txt from 1998/11

From: "Hiroshi Nagatsuma" <hiroshi@-----.jp>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re:_[kl]_Concert_A_pitch,_again?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 06:21:36 -0500

String and vocal people are playing not by equal temperament but by pure
temperament. Is this right?
Tuning to the reference pitch 440Hz or 442Hz seems OK.But it seems doubtf=
ul
to tune each intervals exactly to the tuner. On the other hand:Flute play=
ers
can easily 'bend' intonations.I wonder how by clarinet.
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>David Renaud wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> > I let my students tune to my tuner but
>> > I
>> > first checked the pitch of the piano and (what do you know?) the pia=
no
was
>> > actually tuned FLAT by a few cents - the meter indicated 3 cents fla=
t
from
>> > A440,
>> > whatever that works out the be.
>> >
>> > > d) This worries people with an engineering or scientific backgroun=
d
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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