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Re: "Perfect" pitch and Bb/A clarinets

Author: gavalanche20
Date: 2018-03-27 03:46

The very first time I picked up a clarinet, without knowing it was tuned in B-flat, I put it together and blew into an open G, and started panicking when all that came out was a concert F and there was nothing I could do to change it. Then I played the tutorial CD from the Essential Elements book we were told to purchase with a clarinet and finally realized why that was the case. Since then it hasn't bothered me at all, however.

For what it's worth I think that playing clarinet has actually improved my sightreading since it made me realize how much I relied on pitch memory to read stuff like choral passages and forced me to rely on other means that musicians without perfect pitch use like looking at the intervals notes and stuff like that.

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