Klarinet Archive - Posting 000387.txt from 2003/09

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] C clarinet intonation problems
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:21:15 -0400

But don't you see what Matthew is doing? He's using the Doppler Effect to fix his tuning problems! See, if your horn is flat, then you drive fast *toward* the audience in order to raise the apparent pitch. If you are sharp, you drive really fast *away* from the listener... :-/

Erik Tkal

At 01:08 AM 9/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I think you should listen to what he is saying, Matthew...but I've been bitching about it for what, 5 months now? Does anyone have any horror stories that might scare our friend Matthew into driving a little slower? That would make me very happy. I really don't want him to die because how would I know what happened?
>
>I know this is a clarinet list, not a car list, but I think you should see why I posted this so off the topic message. I think Matthew is an important contributor to this list and I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him.
>
>Matthew, I am in no way insulting your driving abilities. I'm just expressing my concern because we all know that popular saying...."Shit Happens!"
>
>-Rebecca
>
>
>>From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
>>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: RE: [kl] C clarinet intonation problems
>>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> Yes - but at 155 could they catch me?
>>
>>
>>
>>May I recount an anecdote that my father told to me? My father's
>>roommate in college offered him a ride to the big football game at a
>>neighboring school. This school was on the other side of a mountain
>>pass. The fellow would step on the gas and pass other cars around
>>blind curves. After a few such curves, my Dad asked the fellow to stop
>>and to let him out of the car.
>>
>>"Don't worry," replied the roommate, "We're going fast enough that we're
>>not in the other lane long enough to get hit!" My Dad felt that this
>>fellow really believed it.
>>

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