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Puzzling Tune Results

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-04-17 22:58

Bear with me, I seem to be standing on the hose somehow...

I noodled around with my Alto today, and measured the tuning of various parts.
The mouthpiece alone gave me a Concert Bb (unstable, could easily lip it up and down from A to B)
Mpc plus neck gave the same tuning (including the instability), but exactly one octave lower.
Fully assembled, I got the same note - stable this time - same octave when playing a clarion middle-staff C#.

I can understand the stability issues. But why do I get the very same note in the 2nd and 3rd case? I would have expected it to be one octave lower. Or is this a harmonic/partials issue at work?

--
Ben

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Re: Puzzling Tune Results

Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-04-18 06:13

yes, it is the partials. the 2nd time the Bb was a fundental and the third was an overtone.

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Re: Puzzling Tune Results

Author: blazian
Date: 2007-04-18 22:03

My mouthpice easily goes from Bb to G# (probably the soft reed), but the note it's on the most is Bb. With the neck + mouthpiece is a steady Bb.

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