Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2008/04

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] low g
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:00:11 -0400

Replace pad with one a half mm smaller and also thinner.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2008 8:19 AM
>To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] low g
>
> 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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