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Author: C@p
Date: 2001-12-24 05:15
When playing a mouthpiece with a good reed but without the rest of the clarinet, is there a standard pitch or frequency one should look for to determine if the mouthpiece plays sharp, flat or true?
C@p
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Author: Gregory Smith
Date: 2001-12-24 12:39
No. You need to play it with a clarinet to make determinations about intonation. There are no absolutes, only compromises acoustically speaking. You'll get different results with different clarinets. The mouthpiece can not be exclusive in making these types of determinations.
Gregory Smith
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Author: Evan
Date: 2001-12-25 00:33
There is a standard pitch that a mouthpiece should produce. I know this is at least true for saxophone becasues when I was first learning to play a soprano my sax teacher told me to play the mouthpiece only to produce a Db in order to get my mouth set up correctly. I can only imagine that this is the same on a clarinet. Sorry I do not know the correct pitch.
Evan
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Author: joevacc
Date: 2001-12-25 04:30
Evan wrote:
"There is a standard pitch that a mouthpiece should produce."
The mouthpiece does not produce the pitch- the clarinetist does. What I have been taught is a D6 is the pitch that is acceptable for legit playing i.e. classical players, and some players will blow a C#6 (jazz players).
If you practice you can play a major scale on just the mouthpiece. The pitch that you produce is directly proportional to the air speed or reed speed and of course your embouchure. The air or reed speed as I understand it, should not waver! It should be constant.
I have brought this subject up before and have not gotten any positive or negative feedback on it. I hope some of our teachers and pros will elaborate.
Best,
-=[Joe Vacc]=-
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Author: GBK
Date: 2001-12-25 05:28
When starting beginners, to test the formation of the embouchure, proper breath support, and air speed, I have the students blow into the mouthpiece by itself - the pitch produced should be approximately a concert C.
After the barrel is added on to the mouthpiece, the desired pitch I look for should be close to a concert G.
If the beginning student is a half step below the approximate pitch, it is fine. More than a half step in either direction gives me a clue to recheck all beginning fundamentals...GBK
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Author: Tim Kelley
Date: 2001-12-26 00:45
Santy Runyon has long advocated mouthpiece-only exercises to develop proper embouchure. He lists B Concert (above A=880) on clarinet, A=880 for alto sax, G below A=880 on tenor. His contention is that you can then play any note without adjusting your embouchure.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-12-26 04:46
Santy Runyon of Runyon mouthpieces & ligatures. Pretty well-known jazz sax player of yore. Clarinet was not his forte.
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