Author: Max S-D
Date: 2020-07-23 19:53
I think we overthink this. I have experimented with setting my tuner at 442Hz and at 440Hz for a week at a time and doing my usual long tone and interval warmups with a tuner. The experiment usually falls apart because I forget to take note of what I am doing because I forget I put the tuner there. With a 65mm barrel on my R13, I can play comfortably at 442 or at 440. I usually have to pull out a small amount for either, obviously a bit more for 440. Maybe a hair (less than 1mm) for 442 and in the realm of 2mm for 440. But that's all within the range of day-to-day variation depending on temperature, reed, how tired my embouchure is, etc.
Once I am roughly calibrated with barrel position, it's just not a problem. Listen to the people around you and adjust according to your ears (voicing, embouchure, extra fingers, extra venting). That got a lot easier to do when I stopped biting the hell out of my mouthpiece and reed.
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