Klarinet Archive - Posting 000376.txt from 2006/08

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tuning
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:50:19 -0400

That's because so many oboe players now play the tuning pitch by putting a
tuner on their stands and lipping the A they produce to make the needle on
the tuner show A=(whatever the conductor thinks he/she wants). But they
don't seem actually to adjust their reeds to play comfortably or naturally
at that pitch - so as soon as they stop lipping down their pitch goes up
where the reed actually wants to be. I know, it's not a clarinet topic
exactly, but I don't understand why even some very good players in the
Philadelphia area do this.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GrabnerWG@-----.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:39 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Tuning
>
> I played some concerts with an oboe player last year. She
> would give a 442 A. Then as soon as she actually started
> playing, she would go right up to 444.
> She wouldn't believe me, until I showed her on my tuner. I
> would have to calibrate it to 444 before the needle would
> stop jumping 20 cents into the red.
>
>

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