Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 2010/09

From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] TUNING-Clem Hutchinson
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:17 -0400

Perhaps the most compelling reason for a band to tune to the clarinet is the
fact that, for every note in the range, the pitch it produces is near the
top of the available pitch range. All other wind instruments utilize, more
or less, the middle of their potential pitch range. If the band were to tune
to the trumpet, for instance, and the trumpet wanted to tune to A=444Mhz,
most clarinets would be hopelessly flat in pitch. In other words, any given
clarinet can always tune lower, but, if "pushed" all the way in, cannot
raise the pitch appreciably without deleterious effects on timbre; or
without carrying a passel of barrels around...

Kent

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
To: "'The Klarinet Mailing List'" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] TUNING-Clem Hutchinson

> There is no single wave form produced by a clarinet and some notes can be
> very close to a pure sine wave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DGross1226@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:52 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] TUNING-Clem Hutchinson
>
> In a message dated 9/9/2010 5:26:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Jennifer
> Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.comwrites:
>
>
> (someone once told me > that the clarinet comes closest to producing a
> pure
>> sine wave...
>
> Actually, Jennifer, it's a square wave.
>
> Don
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