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Re: Mouthpiece pitch tendency

Author: nellsonic
Date: 2018-03-21 08:47

The mouthpiece plays the pitch that you voice. It's easy to bend the pitch an octave or so if all your fundamentals are sound. Somewhere around a C or B (concert pitch) is what usually works best, so it sounds like your voicing is fine. Hitting a C exactly with the mouthpiece is fairly arbitrary. I just checked my own set-up, and on a blind test I land about 20 cents flat on the C. That's not a concern because this set up and voicing allow me to play well in tune with focused tone.

It's best if you have to pull out slightly to be in tune in normal conditions. This allows you some flexibility to raise the pitch if you have to play without a proper warm-up or in a colder space (or with string players!).

Anders

Post Edited (2018-03-21 08:53)

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