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 "Tuning to a piano sounds wierd."
Author: Bartmann 
Date:   2006-10-06 14:34

I was talking to my friend (a post-masters degree in clarinet performance major) about tuning a clarinet with piano. His first off-the-cuff remark was: "Oh the clarinet always sounds wierd when tuning to a piano."

I often play duets with a colleague who has a Bösendorfer Imperial piano. When I tune with a flute indeed the tuning sounds exact and the resonance from the unison notes build off on another. Yet when I transition to the clarinet, there does seem to be something missing in the tuning: the unisons are not as resonant.

Yet as the ensemble grows to include other instruments, the unison notes do indeed become more resonant.

Remember that I only realized the difference in the quality of tuning after playing flute/piano duets and then immediately playing the clarinet.

Has anyone experienced this?

Bartmann
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