Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 2005/10

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Upward Creeping pitch
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:52:28 -0400

Good for you Nancy!!! Best tones are not when you have to pinch upward
to the max just to get in tune.

GaryT

Nancy Buckman wrote:

> At 09:17 AM 10/21/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Come on, Joe. What are standards for, anyway? Among the questions
>> you've left out are, "Can manufacturers rely on making instruments for a
>> standard pitch?" and "Can musicians take their instruments from one
>> performing organization to another?".
>
>
> I was going to stay out of this fray, mainly because I am hot under
> the collar at the moment about this very subject. But here's my
> take. I was called to sub for a friend in another orchestra who is
> sick. I took the shortest (63mm) barrel I own and the longest (67mm),
> knowing just how orchestras can be about pitch, especially community
> ones. This particular orchestra is a semi-pro community orchestra and
> I was to be paid. After the orchestra tuned, we started rehearsal
> (Polovetsian Dances) and I was called on the carpet for being flat. I
> informed the conductor that I had a tuner attached to my instrument
> and the shortest barrel that I owned on my clarinet and that I could
> not bring my pitch any higher. I also told him I was 17 cents sharp
> on the tuner with the short barrel. I then asked what he wished me to
> do. He suggested that I better find a way to fix the problem. So I
> did. I packed up and left. I have invested thousands of dollars now
> in barrels, to suit people who won't play at a semblance of standard
> pitch, and I refuse to invest any more. It costs a string player
> nothing to slide their fingers back towards the nut. Why should I
> foot the bill for their laziness (and the conductor's "God complex" )?
>
> Nancy
>
> Nancy Buckman
> Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
> eefer@-----.net
>
>
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