Klarinet Archive - Posting 000218.txt from 2009/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:23:38 -0500

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Michael Nichols
<mrn.clarinet@-----.com> wrote:

>> 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.

Why is that a problem? You only have to play for 4 bars (the pitch
won't change noticeably in that time), so you organise the pitch of
the clarinet in advance to take account of the flatness. (Short
barrel, for example.)

It won't lie down that easily -- even though I played the piece
entirely on the A myself in Padova this very evening:-)

Tony
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