Klarinet Archive - Posting 000841.txt from 2000/02

From: "Bryan Cholfin" <cranked@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rhythm training, was: daily playing
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:31:50 -0500

I dusted off an old pennywhistle I had stuck in a drawer from many years ago
and tooted out a few notes on it, and compared it to what was coming out of
my clarinet. I think I get it now. But if what we play as an A is really a
B-flat (as played on a C-instrument), why not call it a B-flat? Just so we
don't have to say 'flat' and 'sharp' all the time? Then we'd have to play
our 'sharps' and 'flats' to play in C major. Never mind.

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>From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Rhythm training, was: daily playing
>Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2000, 12:15 AM
>

> Bryan,
>
> The "natural" scale of the clarinet is not Bb. One could argue that the most
> natural scale on the instrument is a F scale (putting fingers down one at a
> time from thumb F down to low F and then back up). But I don't want to confuse
> you. The clarinet is "pitched" in Bb. That means that when the player plays a
C
> note or plays a C scale, a Bb note or scale actually comes out of the
> instrument. Everything you read and play actually comes out one full step
> lower. When writers write for the Bb clarinet, they know this and adjust the
> part so that the note they want to sound comes out. This is called transposing
> the part for the Bb clarinet. They write it up one full step.

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