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harsh F#5

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-04-12 02:44

I play a pair of R13's, a Bb and an A. On both of them F#5 is relatively harsh and edgy. The effect isn't glaring, but it's noticeable, certainly at least to me. It's worse on the Bb instrument. The adjacent notes all seem fine. The 12th lower (B3) seems fine. The edgy F#4's are in tune. (Maybe it's unrelated, but D# 6 with rh middle finger is quite flat and I rarely use it, usually opting for rh index plus sliver key.)

I've accepted these harsh F#5s for years, and sort of modified my address in playing to try to minimize the problem. However, it isn't fully effective (done by me), nor do I like changing things up that way. One of our band pieces this season has a loud entrance right on that note, and the other night at rehearsal my attention finally became drawn to trying to address this problem.

Since I get this on both instruments, is it an R13 thing? Or what? Any advice?

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