Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:45:58 -0400

At 05:08 PM 8/15/2000 EDT, LeliaLoban wrote:
>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.
>
Digital pianos are stretch-tuned, too. On some of the better ones you can
undo that and use mean-tone or several other variant tuning schemes.

Bill Hausmann NEW ADDRESS: bhausmann1@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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