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Author: Ed
Date: 2001-05-10 14:45
What is typically accepted levels of deviation in +/- cents as far tuning clarinets is concerned?
Thanks.
Ed
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-05-10 15:44
Ed,
All I can offer (from the perspective of a semi-professional player/semi-professional technician) is that my requirement when restoring a clarinet is that all notes (without 'operator action') be within plus or minus 10 cents; as a performance goal, I think that plus or minus 5 cents is about as good as most musicians can hear. I'd be interested in hearing what the true professional players have to say on this.
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Author: William
Date: 2001-05-11 02:11
Being within two cents sharp or flat is considered to be "in tune."
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Author: Wes
Date: 2001-05-11 06:23
Some people say that for a single person playing a melody, most listeners can't tell if it is as far off as far as a quarter tone. However, if two people are playing in unison, the listener can hear beats if they are not right on. There will always be some kind of beat because two players cannot generate identical waves(notes) in phase all the time. If you are playing in a group, the average pitch of all the players you can hear may be what you try to tune to while playing. You are also influenced more by the persons sitting closest to you.
If you as a clarinet player are in unison with an oboe player, the harmonic structure is so different that the tuning seems strange. The oboe second harmonic is very strong while the clarinet has a strong third harmonic and very little second harmonic.
I guess the point of this comment is that it is a complex situation and one has to try to make it sound as musical as one can.
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