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Re: An intonation question

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-04-11 18:05

>Of course, after a few sessions, the tuning settled down and actually improved over the previous instruments. It just took a while to reset and re calibrate the way they played.
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Yeah -- and for some of us, old dead habits have a way of sitting up in their coffins like Dracula. I learned to play as a child on a 1957 Conn Director with extremely wide twelfths. Also, the Conn's throat tones are all over the place, some sharp and some flat. I learned to do a whole lot of lipping up and lipping down. To this day, nearly half a century after I stopped using that Conn as my regular instrument (though I've kept it for sentimental reasons), if I don't *think* about what I'm doing I'll adjust for the Conn. That doesn't work so well on my Buffet R-13 or on any of the vintage and antique clarinets I still insist I don't collect, really I don't...!

Lelia
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