Klarinet Archive - Posting 000584.txt from 2003/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] intonation
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:57:21 -0500

Dear Howard,

Have you experimented with using cut down versions of tuning rings to
fit between mouthpiece and the upper socket of the barrel? If so, are
tuning rings appropriate or advantageous at this juncture? Is it
possible that the application of tuning rings has focussed upon a pull
at the wrong place for all this time?

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 11:13 AM, howard klug wrote:

> Abe....my class of students (working on your Tone, Technique and
> Staccato)...says "hello." You're absolutely right, I believe, about
> tuning at the mouthpiece. You drop the pitch this way, but not at an
> expense of timbre as happens when one pulls at the barrel. Readers
> should
> try pulling at the barrel in 1/2 mm. increments and listen to the tone
> quality come in and out of center as one continues to pull. When
> pulling
> at the mouthpiece there is no similar change of timbre.
>
> Howard

Richard Bush
Hope to see you in SLC @ ClarinetFest
rbushidioglot@-----.com
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