Author: clarnibass
Date: 2018-07-11 09:00
Re the "European" pitch, I don't know if any Buffets were made to play at 445... I haven't heard of any French system ones... but is 445 even standard anywhere? Some Buffets are supposedly made to 442, but the difference is often a 1mm shorter barrel. Anyway most professional players here play regular Buffet clarinets, with 65mm and 66mm barrels, and need to play at 442 which is the most common here (we use both 442 and 440 here all the time).
A rough calculation... randomly choosing a relatively long note, let's say 400mm (around low Bb or A from memory). Even using the unlikely extremes of 440 and 445, the difference is about 1.1%. It doesn't work 100% like that since there could some other factors, but it's pretty close. The difference (for the 400mm note) would be about 4.4mm. Low F would be about 6mm longer. Even that is still much less than his "almost a centimeter" measurement/estimate, let alone the throat notes which would be in the 2mm to less than 3mm area, nowhere near 10mm.
Again this is for the extreme and unlikely case of this clarinet being tuned to 445.
I guess two more possibilities... if this clarinet is extremely sharp for whatever reason, they are basing their measurement/estimate when tuning the longest notes. In this case the throat notes and most others would be much too low when opened this much... are they?
The other is that the measurement/estimate is off. I know a lot of people who could easily see 2mm and call it "almost a centimeter".
Though as I mentioned, I did have to pull a total (from all joints combined) of more than 10mm, with a clarinet made to play at 440/442 and normally does with no or just a little opening at the barrel, because of conditions (extreme heat and humidity).
Post Edited (2018-07-11 09:05)
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