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Author: vin
Date: 2003-12-01 02:31
If you play a "C" on the Bb clarinet, it sounds a "Bb," in concert pitch.
If you play a "C" on the A clarinet, it sounds an "A" in concert pitch.
One would have to play a "C#" on the A clarinet to get a "Bb" in concert pitch and one would have to play a "B" on the Bb clarinet to get an "A" in concert pitch (see: orchestra tuning note). To play a note on the A clarinet when the music is in Bb, one would have to play the note one half step higher than what is written. And conversely, to play on the Bb clarinet what is written for the A clarinet, you would have to read one step down.
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2003-12-01 23:42
vin --
In your last sentence, did you mean to write: ". . . to play on the Bb clarinet what is written for the A clarinet, you would have to read one HALF step down."?
Todd W.
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