Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 1999/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb to A conversion trick
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:13:44 -0500

At 04:14 PM 11/4/1999 -0600, Mark Thiel wrote:
>Lelia wrote:
>
> . . . will be most interested to try
>> this trick. I think I'll also experiment with different diameters of
>cord to
>> try to bring an old High Pitch Bb clarinet down to Low Pitch.
>
>Wow! neat idea. (Though presumably it would be more useful to bring it
>down to modern
>pitch rather than Low Pitch which I think was 435ish. Well I guess we
>don't want
>to fire up that discussioin again; my band plays at A@-----.87364 and
>that's the ONLY
>true pitch.)
>
Unless I am badly mistaken, Low Pitch IS A@-----.

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