Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 2002/05

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Perfect pitch (was Metal clarinets)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 03:53:11 -0400

> Also holds true for a piano which is out of tune
> by more than a quarter tone (i.e. is closer in pitch
> to the next note along than the one actually played.)

I remember really confusing one friend with a piece I had written that
started with a quartertone effect - upper register B flat quartertone sharp,
then quartertone flat, then B flat itself. Because he had perfect pitch,
his immediate thought on hearing the first note was "That's wrong!" Then he
heard the second note, a semitone below, and started thinking that *he* was
wrong. And by the time I came to the third note, he just didn't know what
to think. :P

-- Joe

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