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Re: Low E & F notes out of tune

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-11-16 23:47

If you are relatively new to clarinet or new to tuning with a tuner, it is helpful to know that the Boehm system was basically designed so that the middle line "B" and "C" would be slightly sharp and the corresponding (same fingering) low "E" and "F" would be slightly flat. If you're set up is adjusted so that you are "just in tune" for a majority of notes (riding that line of just so, but almost going flat) then your low "E" and low "F" will always be really flat.

I tune so that the open "G" is comfortably "in the middle." By that I mean that I can adjust about as much SHARPER as I can FLATTER with my normal, relaxed embouchure keeping the pitch in the middle. Even with that, I find loud iterations of the low "E" and "F" being sometimes a bit flat. But that is the nature of the Boehm system.

Now if you're a more experienced player and have used a tuner for years and are now just experiencing this odd turn of events............we need more information.

...............Paul Aviles

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