Klarinet Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 1999/02

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuning while playing
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:51:44 -0500

Jack,
Being able to humor pitches as well as bend them drastically is a skill
that you can work on fairly easily. Take the mouthpiece alone and sit at a
piano if you have one. Play a well supported tone- more or less a concert
C#. Then try and bend the tone down as far as possible (if you're at the
piano you can aim for certain pitches or check to see how far you've
gotten). You'll find that with practice you'll go far (interval wise) as
well as improving the tone while you're bending. You probably won't be
able to go too far up but a long way down! Note: every dog in the
neighborhood will know your house!

Anne

At 10:48 AM 1/31/99 EST, you wrote:
>I hear a lot on the list about tuning while playing. Incredible statements
(to
>me) about knowing which cord you are playing so that you can adjust your
>tuning depending on whether you are playing the tonic or some other note in
>the chord. This morning I experimented with a few notes and my tuner seeing
>how much I could "lip" the notes. I could see no appreciable change
sharpening
>but I could flatten a note about 5 cents but the tone became worse. I know
>that something must work because I have heard small groups resolve a note
>between them and it makes a great difference. So how do you do this? When do
>you do this? I can't believe that you do this in 32nd notes but certainly
must
>at the end of a piece or passage on a sustained note.
>Thanks,
>Jack Dannenberg
>jdclar@-----.com
>
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