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Author: Susie
Date: 2002-05-02 16:45
I've posted a few times before... I'm a "returnee" after a long absence from playing. I've been taking lessons for the last 4 mos. and playing more.... I'm at a point where I can stop focusing on having the right fingering and spend more energy on tone...I find, though, that I have a hard time "hearing myself". In other words, especially when I'm playing higher notes, I know from the tuner that I'm often playing either sharp or flat... I know much of it is probably embouchure related... but if it weren't for the tuner, I don't know that I'd know. Is there a way to learn to "listen to yourself" better?
Susie
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Author: Jimmy
Date: 2002-05-02 17:43
You can try recording yourself. I use this often to clean up my playing. I use it mainly for technical issues rather than tone. I use a cheap tape recorder, but if you have good enough recording equipment, your tone could be heard.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-05-02 18:13
Susie -
Some easy possibilities:
Stand in the corner of the room, facing the intersection of the walls, and 2 to 3 feet out. This will reflect everything back at you.
If you have any LPs, take 3 (or, preferable, a double album and a single one. Open the double album to 90 degrees and put it on a table with the open end facing you, and put the single one on top, making a resonance chamber. It's less easy, but possible, to lean 2 single albums together and put the third one on top. Then sit facing the opening and play.
You could do the same thing with 3 pieces of the cardboard that laundries put in shirt wrappings, or by cutting up a corrugated paper box.
Experiment with your embouchure, tongue and palate to find out what changes the sound.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-05-02 20:03
I have a narrow stairway I can play down. It is carpeted so I think the sound is fairly realistic. It directs the sound back up along the two walls to my ears and sounds like someone else playing from a distance. I imagine I am hearing myself as others would. Though I am not sure.
Regarding intonation on the high notes: My ears seem to allow much more sharpness on the high notes before I notice I am not in tune as compared with notes in the clarion or chalumeau. In fact, I often feel a slightly stretched octave (5 to 10 cents) is preferable. I am not sure whether this is a failing of mine or a common characteristic of the human ear.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-05-05 04:57
Perhaps because we are used to the stretched scale that pianos are typically tuned to (to get the out-of-tune harmnonics of one string better in tune with the fundamental of other strings) we EXPECT the tuning to go sharper as the notes go higher.
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