Klarinet Archive - Posting 000793.txt from 2000/06

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Tuners that sound a pitch
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:40:04 -0400

Claudia wrote:
>I have a Korg tuner (AT-120) that sounds pitches, and I like it very
>much, but I have trouble hearing whether intervals other than unisons
>and octaves are in tune when I play with it. Somehow the tone that
>the tuner produces is sufficiently different from my clarinet tone to
>confuse me.

It's always harder to to tell intervals - even octaves --when using
a pure (electronic) tone; the overtone series of the notes are
what help us tell when intervals are good.

Arthur Benade once recounted the story of asking professional
musicians to identify and judge intervals which he generated
using pure sine waves. They did so dreadfully and were so
mortified by how badly they did that Benade had to sneak
a few overtones into the notes so they could salvage their
egos.

Mark Thiel

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