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Author: Eoin
Date: 2001-04-29 21:22
Intonation meanings playing tune. When you play a note on any woodwind instrument, it might be slightly flat (below the correct note), slightly sharp (above the correct note) or it might be perfectly in tune. This is called intonation.
The notes on woodwind instruments are divided into registers. These are groups of notes which are all played by blowing in roughly the same way. One a flute, or saxophone, the lowest register is the first octave. When you want to play higher, you have to blow hard, and in the saxophone you have to press the "octave key". This shifts all the notes into a second register where the notes are higher. The notes have the same fingering in the second register as they do in the first, they are just higher up. On the clarinet, it's a bit more complicated because the second register is more than an octave about the first: the note C in the first register becomes G in the second register.
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Author: Melissa
Date: 2002-04-14 02:33
Eoin had a very good way of explaining it. There is a easier way to explain it. Intonation is to just be in tune when playing your instrument. And making sure that you don't stick when playing.
Registers are when they become higher then what you learned how to play in the beginning. In the Clarinet (or basically any instrument)once you hold down your regester key then that means that you are now playing in the second register or the upper register. Either way you put it you are now playing in another regestier.
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