Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2004/07

From: Umar Goldeli <umar@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] a question for list members - biofeedback
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 00:05:14 -0400

Alas, I don't have a tuner. : Am waiting until I get back home until I
buy one.. I already have 90kg of luggage to haul back from Tokyo. ;)

Although I only started playing clarinet *very* recently and had
absolutely no idea what any of the notes *should* sound like a few weeks
ago.. and was playing so flat it's not funny.

In fact, I didn't even notice this until I had a chance to play together
with a piano.. at which point it became *very* obvious that I was playing
flat.

I find that if I don't have an image of the sound in my mind - single
notes, tunes, whatever - I play all over the place and it may be
relatively in tune in itself - but certainly not relative to any other
instrument/set frequency.

I believe that this has a lot to do with the fact that I am still a
beginner and don't have firmly imprinted "images" of the notes/pitches
yet.

Hence the comment about mouthpiece/reed only - unless you regularly do it
and pay attention to it - I would imagine that a player - regardless of
experience - without a reference point would get odd results. I think if
everybody did the same exercise with the clarinet attached and played a
low G for example (or another note on the clarinet generally considered
"stable") - the results would be a lot more consistent.

The other question is - what is the hypothesis that the original poster is
testing?

//umar.

> > [snip]
>
> Umar, have you made the measurement, and are you willing to say what
> your result was?
>

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