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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-06-06 04:00
That happened to me in my high school senior year orchestra concert. We played the opening movement of the Schubert 3rd Symphony http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/24780, and in bar 8 I had the opening solo (on the A clarinet). It went well in rehearsal, but at the performance, as I went up the scale, in my excitement I went more than a quarter step sharp. The principal flutist (who repeated my phrase) sounded a quarter step flat. I made us both look bad.
I was mortified, and from then on (for 52 years now), I've checked my intonation on "short tube" as well as "long tube" notes, an octave above (A 880) and below (A 220), and also 4ths and 5ths above and below A 440.
And even if I'd been playing Bb clarinet, it wouldn't have helped to tune to Bb, which is a long tube note.
There's no rule against tuning notes other than A 440. In fact, I've read that when when Doriot Anthony Dwyer had her final audition as principal flute in Boston, she wowed the committee by doing exactly that. (She held the chair from 1952 until 1990, so she was obviously doing it right.)
Unless you're Robert Marcellus, you will find yourself out of tune once in a while, and I'll bet that even he had some moments in rehearsal when, by Cleveland Orchestra standards, he was out of tune.
Your goal is to hear when you go out and immediately adjust your embouchure to get back as close to in tune as possible. Then at the first rest you adjust the pull-out at the joints.
Intonation is not a setting -- it's a process.
Ken Shaw
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