Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 1999/10

From: "Carl & Polly Anderson" <DClarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sounding Flatter
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:07:05 -0400

Jesse, How is your pitch after playing for 20-30 minutes against just a
tuner set to 440? Have you talked to Yamaha as to what lenght the barrel of
your horn should be (it could have the wrong length barrel, it's been known
to happen). I would check these first before anything drastic. Carl
Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: <musaki@-----.sg>
Subject: [kl] Sounding Flatter

> 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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>
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> without music...and then i will
> choose not to live..."
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