Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 2000/08

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:08:21 -0400

Tony Pay wrote,
>... even on a modern piano, the fundamental
>is still tuned sharper on the high notes, which is why to play in
>*unison* with the high notes on a modern piano, you generally have to
>play sharper on a clarinet.
>
>That's because we judge unison playing usually by lack of beating
between fundamentals.
>
>On the other hand, to play a note so that it sounds the same pitch as a
>high piano, but *after* the piano has sounded, requires a flatter pitch
>than what's required for the unison.
>
>It's a miracle we ever get anywhere, isn't it?-)

Indeed it is! How interesting. In the process of answering my question
about flat-sounding top tones on cheap little pianos, you've explained why I
drive myself nuts when I try to play my clarinet on pitch along with
accompaniment I play and then save (home-grown MM1) on my Yamaha Clavinova
keyboard. Sometimes when there's a problem, I hear the illusion that my
clarinet is right and the piano is wrong, even though I know that digital
piano *can't* go out of tune unless I deliberately raise or lower the
programmable pitch. Thanks for the explanation.

Lelia
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...still playing in the key of "off" in Northern Virginia....
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