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Pitch tendencies?

Author: sinkdraiN
Date: 2006-02-07 12:46

How long does it take your clarinet to warm up to pitch? When I take my clarinet out of the case and play I am about 20 cents low. By playing soft and by pinching I can get it up to about 5 cents low. After about 10-15 minutes the instrument warms up to pitch.

In an effort to lose the "sax player with a clarinet" title I am studying with an excellent clarinet teacher. In my first lesson he played my setup and confirmed that it plays 20 cents flat and suggested that I use my other barrel (2mm shorter than the stock).

I'm playing a show and notice that after about 10 minutes I have the barrel pulled out to where the stock barrel would be because bottom line E and below goes VERY sharp.

So the last show I used my stock barrel and the pitch was good. But during a private lesson last night I pulled out the clarinet to play with a tenor sax student of mine and I was dreadfully flat.

Is it normal for the pitch of a clarinet to move around so much from cold to warm? I experience nothing like that with my saxes or my flute or even my plastic bass clarinet. Is it the nature of clarinets or the nature of MY clarinet?

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