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Re: tuning the clarinet

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-10-02 03:06

Tuning from the barrel is usually the first thing we do but you have to remember that it will effect the notes closer to the barrel than the notes further away. So it will effect your throat tone notes a lot more then say you low G-D. I usually recommend pulling out the middle joint if the lower half of your clarinet is sharp, something apparently you can't do, and even pulling out the bell if the bell tones are sharp, unless it makes the low E unbearably flat. Then any single or combination of notes that are still sharp we put tape in the upper half of the hole below that note to bring the pitch down on that note as long as it doesn't throw out the 12th above or below. To make a single note sharper you usually have to have someone that knows what they're doing undercut the tone hole. Remember too, some barrel designs will alter the pitch in one register more than another. Could make your throat tones sharper or flatter, could make you clarion register sharper or flatter but remember, when it "fixes" one register it may have a negative effect on another register. What a barrel won't do is fix a single note, they're not that smart. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com

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