Klarinet Archive - Posting 000509.txt from 2001/04

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Highest Clarinet Notes -- ReReReVisited
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:26:51 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
>
> I've been on a very long campaign to get woodwind players to
> standardize our
> octave designation. In this method, the lowest C on the instrument is C1,
> and the octave from that note to the next highest note is C1,
> C#1, D1, etc.
> The next octave is C2, C#2, etc. Any notes below the lowest C are called
> the "O" (zero) octave. <snip>
>
> Middle C is C1 on the flute, oboe, clarinet and saxophone. That's
> convenient. (It is C3 on the bassoon.)
>
> Does anyone see any benefits to this system?
>

I'd see far greater benefit from a system that would allow everyone to
communicate accurately - which would entail at the very least all the
octaves available on a piano and a high degree of international agreement
based on the authority of some (perhaps yet to be created) generally
recognized international body of musicians.

Until we reach that Utopian end, maybe the best way is simply to describe
your reference system each time you use it - maybe give a parenthetical
definition of "middle C," the location of which everyone *seems* to
understand, e.g. (Middle "C"@-----.

Karl Krelove (who never knows without a score in front of him which octave
ANYONE is referring to)

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