Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2001/06

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuners
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:28:22 -0400

Yes Phil, most people just use a tuner to tell if they are on pitch or not,
rather than if they are hitting the right note or not. For that reason it
doesn't matter much what note the tuner says you are playing, but rather, if
the needle is higher or lower than the middle point.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subject: RE: [kl] Tuners

> The Yamaha TD-1 can be calibrated to display the fingered note for Bb, F,
Eb
> instruments as well as concert instruments. But the note named on the
> display is irrelevant unless you are _way_ out. Even then, you can work
out
> what the displayed note will be for each fingered note...
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Michael Smallwood [mailto:psmallwood@-----.net]
> Sent: 21 June 2001 23:33
> To: Klarinet List
> Subject: [kl] Tuners
>
> Here's a question that has haunted me for quite some time. Are all
> electronic chromatic tuners calibrated to the key of C? The reason I ask
is
> when I play a note on the clarinet the note name on the tuner is not the
> same as the note name I'm fingering. I know the clarinet is in the key of
Bb
> and this is the cause of what I'm seeing. What do "you" do; just look at
the
> degree of sharpness or flatness and disregard the note display? Or, are
> there tuners available that can be "calibrated" for instruments pitched in
> different keys? Thanks.
>
> Phil Smallwood
>
>
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