Klarinet Archive - Posting 000288.txt from 1999/01

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.ch>
Subj: Re: [kl] Inharmonic partials, was RE: [kl] re:Intonation training
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:11:36 -0500

Tony Pay schrieb:

>

(snip)

> If you listen to any real instrument playing just one note, you usually
> hear it as that note plus a timbre. However, if you listen more
> carefully, you can distinguish other components.
>
> Doing this is actually a good way of practising low notes on the
> clarinet. Playing low F, you will find that you can hear the C a
> twelfth above, and also the A a sixth above that. And all these
> components, up to a certain frequency, are necessarily in tune; at any
> rate according to one very common and useful definition of the term 'in
> tune'. So on the clarinet perfect harmonicity of the lower components
> is *almost always* achieved.
>

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I like to go further when I practise (sounds like a rare occurance?) and when
I want to improve a tone in the lower register, I bring out as many different
partials seperately one after the other and then go back to the low tone and
try to hear them again.

I'm really glad about the recent discussions about harmonicity because it
explains so much of what was obvious to me but that I couldn't explain or
pinpoint.

Thanks listers!

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.ch

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