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Re: new clarinet tuning issue

Author: M123
Date: 2017-08-18 22:59

echi85 wrote:

> How flat are we talking here? Closer to 5 cents or 20? A 64
> barrel on a standard Bb clarinet is 2 mm too short so there has
> to be something wrong. What mouthpiece did the teacher use? I
> find that M series Vandoren mouthpieces tend to play flat in
> the throat tones. What strength reeds? I assume that you are
> testing it without any resonance fingerings? Are the other
> throat tone notes out of tune?
>
> You can have the tone hole under the A key undercut if you need
> be. I had it done on my R13 when I first got it. It's one of
> those notes that it's better to be a little high than a little
> low.

I'll try to answer-I think more like 25, the tuner showed 45 degree to the left of center as well as 30? degrees right of center on a note on the high end. Don't know what the kind of mouthpiece the teacher has. My daughter uses a Ridenour Encore mouthpiece with 3.5 Mitchell reeds that were recommended by the teacher. Resonance fingerings is not a term I understand but I was told the instructor asked for an open G. As for other notes, the tech played a scale and they trended flat on the mouthpiece end and sharp on the bell end. Pardon my lack of knowledge here. The depth of my ability with a clarinet is limited to borrowing it for an attempt to blow one note which took an alarming amount of effort. Then I gave it back to her.

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