Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 2004/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] B clarinets/ High pitch Bb (Re: [kl] A bass clarinet)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:13:55 -0400

David=A0Renaud wrote:

> smaller pianos require more of this stretch.
> C8 on a spinet piano might have to be 45 cents
> sharp as dictated by the harmonics in a small
> cheap spinet.

This list had an extensive discussion of stretch a few years ago, and I
didn't understand most of what was said about it --- except that pianos
sound bad without it.

Could you give a one-paragraph or two-paragraph summary of why it's
needed, and/or why one piano needs more or less stretch than another?

Thank you

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