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Author: ben
Date: 2001-05-29 20:58
Since I will be starting school at the New England Conservatory next fall, I am wondering how high most groups tune at up there.
Does anyone know how high the Boston Symphony tunes? A-440, A-442?
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-05-29 21:09
Ben -
The Boston Symphony is known for tuning high - close to A-444. How the clarinetists manage it nobody knows. I have no idea where NEC tunes. Why not e-mail the clarinet prof there and ask?
For what it's worth, Gigliotti mouthpieces can be ordered at A-442. That combined with an F serial number Buffet, already set at 442, should get you right up there.
Just be glad you're not going to Vienna. They tune to A-450, and they play special clarinets, made and used nowhere else.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: willie
Date: 2001-05-30 04:29
A lot of Vienna's brass winds are found nowhere else either. I've been told that most all the wind instruments are owned and provided by the Vienna Symphony as they want all the horns the same, the trumpets the same, etc. All uniform, not just for tuning but for tone also. I can't officially comfirm this. I'm just passing what was told to me by a gentleman who studied in Vienna for a couple years.
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Author: Chris Bush
Date: 2001-05-30 15:39
I've been at NEC for a while and the groups tend to tune to 440. Of course, if the pitch goes up (or down in the strings), we try to follow it.
Ben-send me an email if you have any other questions. I'm actually from NC as well.
CB
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Author: Keil
Date: 2001-06-01 03:00
1st let me congratulate you, 5 of my friends were accepted to NEC, 3 are going... I didn't audition. I'm going to Boston University. I'll tell my friends to keep an eye out for ya!
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