Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2004/11

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] pitch standard
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:44:59 -0500

In a message dated 11/7/2004 1:19:30 PM Central Standard Time,
forestaten@-----.net writes:
<<4 cents? Most orchestral players only wished. Hahaha Even great ones. Have
you ever watched a wind player at a tuning machine? Or listened to what goes
on in an orchestra while the musicians are constantly moving pitch around to
"play in-tune"?>>

I had a very relevant experience yesterday. We had a concert yesterday with
the Skokie Valley Symphony, a group that both my wife and I play in. We had a
pre-concert warm-up rehearsal of about an hour. At the end of that hour,
everyone was pretty well warmed up and in tune.

At one half hour before curtain time, the hall management turned on the air
conditioning. The temperature dropped dramatically by at least 10 degrees on
stage. When I got back to my clarinets, my A=44+ tuning had sunk 20 cents!

The flutes, of course were even further off.

We warmed up as well as we could, people pushed in, etc. I wound up playing
on completely different barrels than I did in the dress rehearsal or the
pre-concert warm up!

So much for .5 cent difference, or even 4 cents!

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
World-class clarinet mouthpieces

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