Klarinet Archive - Posting 000452.txt from 2001/02

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Tone (was: strange intonation in warm up exercise)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:49:16 -0500

This interesting discussion has revived a thought that I posted
once before:

If an inexpensive tuner can respond to only the lowest 'strong'
tone (namely, the fundamental) and thereby can mimic what our ear+brain
perceives, would it be possible to build an inexpensive (less than $100)
tuner that ignored the fundamental and measured a higher partial ---
thereby giving us an inexpensive gizmo to compare tone color (tonal
character) ??

Certainly such measurements would be primitive and incomplete and
not tell the entire story, but Hey! If some people will spend money to
flavor their reeds peppermint or strawberry, or to polish their
instruments, or to find the best cork grease, then wouldn't some of us
spend a few bucks to (perhaps) learn something about our tone?

.....I wish we had time to do everything, don't you?

Cheers,
Bill

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