Klarinet Archive - Posting 000116.txt from 1999/10

From: musaki@-----.sg
Subj: [kl] Sounding Flatter
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:50:56 -0400

Helo all,

I'd just like to ask about this pitch/tuning thing... I realized that I'm
perpetually sharp... even before warm-up... and that means that I'm
constantly "out of tune" with the band or ensemble I'm playing with. It's
getting on my nerves as time passes. I'm using a Morgan RM10 mouthpiece,
with vandoren #3.5s, and sometimes #4s, and a metallic ligature. The
instrument I use is a Yamaha Custom YCL82. Everytime it comes to tuning
during band practices or concerts, I always end up pulling out the barrel
joint, and the middle joint... to a substantial amount(at times, could
reach about 4mm!), and still end up sharp... now I wonder if it's the
player (me, in other words :( ...) which is really the problem, and not the
instrument combination. One of my friends suggested that it might be due to
my "oral structure", the inside of my mouth... but, I'm really still trying
to find a solution, if there could be one...(I've tried adjusting the bell,
the ligature and the reed, but alas!... most of the time, I still am
sharper than the rest of the clarinets, for eg.)

Hope I can find some helpful opinions here, that I may ponder upon and find
out about. :D

Thanks to All in advance! Cheers!

regards,
Jessie.

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"...for there would be no life
without music...and then i will
choose not to live..."

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