Klarinet Archive - Posting 000645.txt from 2001/06

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuners
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:20:31 -0400

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From: "Philip Michael Smallwood" <psmallwood@-----.net>
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

Basically just look at the degree of sharpness of flatness as in the
practical sense that is all you really need. However I do look to see what
concert pitch the tuner shows and mentally translate it into the equivalent
clarinet note. In the altissimo register it is possible to get two
different notes with the same fingering so it is helpful to see what the
tuner reads.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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