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Re: Barrel for sharp clarinet

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2018-07-09 10:17

Some possibilities for being extremely sharp...

- You are a beginner and you are pressing too firmly with your jaw

- You are not a beginner but the same

- You are using a setup (mouthpiece/reed) that requires you to press much too firmly

- Your mouthpiece plays very sharp for some reason

- It's a pretty old clarinet, so maybe the barrel was changed or shortened at some point (often done by folk/klezmer players and some doublers, though usually not by that much)

- Very hot and humid conditions (I once had to open a total of more than 1cm when recording in almost sauna like conditions)

- Least likely but still possible, something wrong with the clarinet itself

- I guess even less likely is that the 440 and the piano you checked are not actually tuned to that

- Just to verify, you know the clarinet is a transposed instrument and you are not trying to compare the same notes (by name), right? Opening even that much won't bring most of the notes down by that much anyway

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