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Re: Barrel Question

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-11-24 05:25

BGBG wrote:

> This may sound crazy but I simply wanted to try to be
> "correct", or "exact as possible", with reasonable effort.

Not "crazy," but maybe misdirected if you don't play with other people. The "standard" of A4=440 Hz is an arbitrary one set by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization, not a natural law. A440 isn't "correct." It's just one widely accepted standard. It matters to instrument makers and to musicians in ensembles. Many places in the world of Western music use other pitches than 440 Hz for A4.

If your flatness isn't uniform - if the altissimo notes are flat to the rest of your clarinet or if specific notes are out-of-tune with the notes around them, then the musical result may be less satisfying. But that may, as others have suggested, not be a barrel issue.

Karl

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