Klarinet Archive - Posting 000548.txt from 2002/03

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] R-13 and intonation...good grief
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:49:02 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Fred Sheim said:
>
> How do you figure that? Isn't that the same as saying "even if you play
>
> every note in tune, you would still be out of tune?"
>
> Confused again..
>
> Fred
>

Also, think of intonation is a relative thing. Are you in tune relative to
[fill in the blank]? When you play with piano, you need to play one way...
When you play with strings, you tune another way... When you play with
other winds, etc...

Last week, I had the privilege of doing a recording with Lorin Levee of the
LA Phil and he was playing with a string quartet. He plays a set of the
most beautiful clarinets I think I've ever heard. They are the
French-fingered Wurlitzers. The sound was even, rich, "dark," and
beautiful. When he played solo for me after the session, the scale was the
most even, in-tune scale I've heard on a clarinet. That said, there were a
couple notes where he had to adjust to the pitch of the strings. He was
very in tune, but even with a totally "in-tune" clarinet, he still had to
adjust.

I think that is what was meant...

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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