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Re: Intonation Nightmare

Author: WhitePlainsDave  Date:   2015-01-26 18:11 Zachary: Just so we're clear (and this is important) when you say B3 you mean this note correct ? If so, as far as your E3 and F3 being flat....sigh...welcome to the club. This is typical of most clarinets, R13's being no exception. It's part of the reason that Buffet and Backun have levers to adjust the pitch of these notes in their high end clarinets, and why Tom Ridenour claims that correctly designing the clarinet in the first place makes just such levers "less than mandatory." You are describing a condition that hand uncutting of the tone holes corresponding to the flat notes MAY be able to address. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSf2ng2ZEq8 Were these notes sharp, undercutting would, as I understand it, be contra-indicated, or at the very best, not useful. It's only if these notes are flat, that undercutting the tone holes MIGHT raise their pitch, without affecting the same fingering notes that voice when the register key is actuated. By all means first play with some of the variables that contributors have described above. If you still have no luck in addressing this, consider taking your instrument to a repair tech that is HIGHLY FAMILIAR WITH undercutting, or fraising, (French for strawberry I believe, as named after the tool used to do this work, and its resemblance to a strawberry.) Done wrong, this work will permanently screw with your instrument, until an even better repair tech adds material to the tone holes. Good luck Post Edited (2015-01-26 18:14)

Topics	Author	Date
Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-26 07:27
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-26 08:54
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-26 17:03
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	TomS	2015-01-26 17:05
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	sfalexi	2015-01-26 17:59
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-26 18:00
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	clarinetguy	2015-01-26 18:03
Re: Intonation Nightmare	WhitePlainsDave	2015-01-26 18:11
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-26 19:14
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-26 19:20
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-26 19:34
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-26 21:34
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-26 21:40
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	WhitePlainsDave	2015-01-26 23:17
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-26 23:38
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-27 01:11
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-27 01:14
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	TomS	2015-01-27 05:38
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-27 07:36
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-27 09:32
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-27 13:34
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-27 16:33
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-27 18:14
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-27 18:15
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-27 19:58
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	kdk	2015-01-27 20:19
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-27 20:05
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-27 22:44
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-28 01:17
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-28 06:04
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-28 08:19
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Zacharywest158	2015-01-28 18:02
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-28 20:20
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-29 02:09
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-29 10:30
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-29 18:52
Re: Intonation Nightmare	Paul Aviles	2015-01-29 19:57
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	tylerleecutts	2015-01-29 21:47
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Steven Ocone	2015-01-30 03:15
Re: Intonation Nightmare  new	Paul Aviles	2015-01-29 23:56

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