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RE: Standard Tuning in a band

Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2001-10-27 03:19

First of all, no clarinet or saxophone will tune a half tone down from concert pitch. And there is one other instrument, still used quite a bit, that is a lot of trouble to tune down: a piano.

[Here's where it gets off-topic....]

However, to recall a bad scar from the good old days: one of the most bothersome nights of my life was playing a *really big* dance. The leader of our quartet (Piano, Guitar, Drums, and Me) had been assured the piano in the hall was in great shape, having just been tuned. We arrived to discover that the piano tech hadn't wanted to try bringing the piano up to pitch (it had been *so* bad), so he tuned it a semitone flat. My oh my, did I wish I'd had an A-pitch clarinet (or a D sax!). Very little of our stuff was on charts anyway, and I spent most of the night transposing in my head from something that was otherwise pretty much automatic. Yecch!

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