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Re: length and pitch

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-02-02 22:49

Bubalooy wrote:

> My daughter cannot get up to the pitch that other people in her
> school are playing. Her orchestra director has informed me that
> they tune at a=444, which I guess is not uncommon here in
> Germany.

Interesting problem. I'm going to assume you are recent German residents or the local tuning wouldn't be so much of a surprise and the locally available instruments would be made to accommodate it. I'm also assuming that your daughter is playing a French-designed instrument that you bought, possibly, in the US. The difference between American and German tuning is often discussed, and if you're going to remain in Germany (or I've mis-guessed and you really have always lived there) and the instrument is a French instrument, you may need to replace the instrument with one designed to play at A444 or thereabout. If you just put a very short barrel on a clarinet designed to tune to A440-442, you'll probably throw the whole scale off enough that you'll have traded one problem for another.

Assuming (I'm doing a lot of that - if you describe the situation in more detail more helpful suggestions might be possible) the clarinet now tunes somewhere close to A440, I doubt if a commercially made barrel would bring it up to 444. French clarinets are just not designed to do that. I'd say, talk to the orchestra director and get his advice.

Karl

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