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B-flat basics

Author: Bob Schmedake
Date: 2002-12-11 13:37

I still struggle with the fact that a B-flat instrument playing a note is off by 2 half steps from a concert C instrument. When I play my instrument into a tuner, it indicates a different note than I am playing. I assume the tuner is measuring the frequency of the note (is this the problem?). So why would it register different, or why would it sound different.

Isn't a note a note? When I play 440Hz, don't I get an A? What makes an instrument sound like it is playing at a different frequency?

Does it have anything to do with the harmonics that the instrument plays along with the primary frequency? I've heard that clarinets don't create the even harmonics of the base frequency. Is this related?

Help, I need a musical physicist geek :-o.

Bob

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