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Author: lauren01040806
Date: 2007-08-11 20:34
I have been playing clarinet for the past 12 years. I have not been playing much at all the past 3 or so years. I have recently started playing in the praise band at my church and have to play tomorrow. My clarinet is in the shop and so they gave me a plastic Selmer to use until I get mine back. I bought a new chromatic tuner yesterday and now when I tune my Concert Bb the tuner resisters that I am playing an A#. HELP!! i don't know what to do to fix this problem. I've NEVER had this happen before. Can someone help??
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Author: Ski
Date: 2007-08-11 20:42
Look at the situation enharmonically. Concert Bb could be written as C double-flat (though rarely), or, it could be written as... you guessed it... A#
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-08-11 20:42
lauren01040806 wrote:
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> bought a new chromatic tuner yesterday and now when I tune my
> Concert Bb the tuner resisters that I am playing an A#.
And the difference between an A# and a Bb is what ????
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Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2007-08-11 20:43
I'm not sure I understand. a sharp and b flat are the same note.
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Author: Ski
Date: 2007-08-11 20:47
Gentlemen, I think our work here is done...
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Author: Neil
Date: 2007-08-11 23:42
And I thought this thread would be about the movie.
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Author: lauren01040806
Date: 2007-08-12 01:41
I'm not sure that you understand what I mean. When I play the note C it registers on the tuner as though I am playing the note A#
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-08-12 01:45
lauren01040806 wrote:
> I'm not sure that you understand what I mean. When I play the
> note C it registers on the tuner as though I am playing the
> note A#
Which is Bb which is correct for a Bb clarinet. It seems unnatural - but it's the way of a transposing instrument. Each and every Bb clarinet (notice the Bb in the name of the clarinet) plays a concert Bb when a C is fingered.
Search for
transposing instrument
here or on Wikipedia.
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Author: Dano
Date: 2007-08-12 02:21
In other words (as if other words were needed), you are in tune.
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Author: Ski
Date: 2007-08-12 02:52
You said in your original post: "when I tune my Concert Bb..."
"Concert Pitch" is the nomenclature used to denote the actual pitch heard, hence my answer to you.
As has already been pointed out, when you play a C on the clarinet, the actual pitch produced is a Bb (A#).
Yours is a transposing instrument. So let's say you play a G on the clarinet. That produces a concert F. The actual pitch is F. It's called a "G" on the clarinet, but it produces the note "F".
The oboe, for example, is a non-transposing instrument. When you play a C you hear a C. Not so with Bb clarinet --- when you play a C you hear a Bb.
You can buy chromatic tuners that will show you the "fingered pitch" of transposing instruments, such as this Korg tuner http://korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=OT120&category_id=5. With this tuner you can adjust its display so that when you finger, say, a "C", even though the pitch heard is Bb, it displays a C in the readout.
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