Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2008/04

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] low g
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:19:58 -0400

have two questions.

The first one has to do with naming. Of course I am well aware that naming
notes is not the primary source of concern to us musicians
(Shakespeare:"What is in a name?"). A written note "c" we all call "c", by
some odd convention that transforms a logical and elegant music notation
system into a fingering system, (making it hard to us, amateurs, to read
scores, by the way, as a "written" interval is not the sounding interval
anymore).

But nonetheless: there is a convention to name the "central c", that is the
note "c" that is in the centre of the piano key board, and is written one
ledger line up the staff in bass key notation, and one ledger line below the
staff in violin key notation "c1". But on

http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/clarinet/cl_alt_4.html

this naming was quite different. Is there someone on this list who can
explain to me why there are at least two conventions: the european one and
the apparently american one, and what is the fundation of these two systems?

This question is of course only of theoretical importance, of real
importance (for me) is my second one:

I am the proud owner of a Buffet Crampon BC 20 model instrument. It will
have been 1 1/2 ot 2 years ago that my throat notes started to be rather
flat. Correction by embouchure in the end didn't function anymore, but
changing the barrel and using a VanDoren mp B45 solved the problem for all
notes except for the (open) g. It remains uncorrectly low.

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