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Re: Playing a metal clarinet

Author: Tony F
Date: 2013-02-08 06:47

"Oh, and it's the temperature of the air in the bore that makes the pitch higher or lower, not the temperature of the clarinet itself."

I'd dispute this. I used to play a metal Eb in a military band and on a cold day I could take the clarinet from the warm practice room, where it was in tune, to the outside. Withing about 30 seconds it was way flat and I had to warm it up by blowing through it or putting it under my coat to sharpen it up again. The temperature of my breath was the same indoors or outdoors, but the temperature of the clarinet varied by perhaps 40 degrees F. As long as I played it it or blew through it, it stayed in tune but if there was a pause in the program we all started flat.

Tony F.

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