Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 2009/02

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:56:04 -0500

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:

> Given the difficulties of
> moving a mouthpiece by itself, and the obvious problems of playing a setup
> that has been sitting unused for 20 minutes, this is the more likely
> scenario. [Another problem besides the reed sitting unused for 20 minutes is
> that the temperature of the air column in the tube will have reverted to
> whatever room temperature is by that point in time, which will make the
> pitch flatter as well.]

Alright Jonathan...you've convinced me. If I ever have an occasion to
perform this piece, I'm playing the whole thing on the A, because the
one thing we I think can be pretty confident about with regard to
Brahms is that he wanted his music played in tune (even going so far
as asking Clara Schumann to retune her piano to Muhlfeld's clarinet).

And I can't tolerate bad tuning, either.

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