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clarinet voicing

Author: eac
Date: 2007-09-07 21:22

Thomas Ridenour wrote "When an accomplished clarinetist plays into the mouthpiece alone at his usual “voicing frequency,” he will probably play a somewhat flat concert C#. The flatness of this pitch will vary somewhat due to the individual mouthpiece and reed strength, typically between 15 and 40 cents below concert C#...Once a clarinetist can comfortably and consistently sustain the optimum voicing frequency of our somewhat flat C#, the mouthpiece should then be placed on the clarinet and blown into (or “voiced”) the same way.

If successful, the player will discover that the entire practical range of the clarinet, from low E to high G, can be playing in tune with no embouchure change. The sagging throat tones, flat high register and slack intervallic connections that characterize a poorly voiced clarinet tone should be largely corrected by maintaining the optimum voicing frequency of the C#."

I assume that he was referring to the Bb mouthpiece. Does anyone know what pitch other clarinet mouthpieces play?

Liz Leckey

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