Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2006/03

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Other worlds
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:10:43 -0500

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
> Karl Krelove wrote:
>
>
>> Bill, could there have been some
>> miscommunication involved?
>>
>
> Perhaps, but he watched his tuner on each string individually, up and
> down its length, as though this was the 'scientific' way to test. And
> science is best.
>
Bill, I've been a professional bass player. Like any instrument, the
fretboard is a compromise - someone who sets all the open strings with a
tuner is necessarily making compromises somewhere else on the fretboard.
On a bass it isn't so apparent until you start moving near the octave
point, but there's always some intonation problems up there, even with a
micro-tuning bridge.

Unless you have a fretless bass, whereupon _you're_ responsible for the
intonation completely .... :^)

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