Klarinet Archive - Posting 000408.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:17:02 -0400

At 12:33 AM 8/16/2000 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
>I've noticed that I tend to assign 'rightness' to a piano rather than to
>myself, even if I suspect the piano may be out of tune, and even on
>occasions when subsequent investigation shows it indeed to have been out
>of tune. I suppose that's a psychological effect. Perhaps there's a
>similar psychological effect in the opposite direction with an obviously
>'synthesised' sound.
>
In most PERFORMING situations, of course, the piano or organ MUST be
assumed to be right, since the pianinst is unable to make the adjustment,
but a clarinetist can adjust his barrel, setup, or embouchure with RELATIVE
ease. Obviously synthesized sound is, I believe, so obvious because of the
lack of richness of overtones, and, I suspect, the "in-tuneness" of those
overtones (that and inaccuracy of attack).

Bill Hausmann NEW ADDRESS: bhausmann1@-----.com
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