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Re: gone sharp

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2023-09-05 03:40

The sharpness turns out to be caused by something that I've been doing differently relating to sound production, which I started working on last winter. Until just recently I didn't connect what I was doing with a general pitch change. But it consistently raises pitch from bottom to top some 20+ cents.

Note, I wasn't "flat" before I started changing my sound technique, nor did I have a poor sound. But I'm amazed to learn that general pitch could be raised the way it has.

Confusion arose because I wasn't consistently using the new technique; I usually warmed up other stuff first, then added my "new sound" stuff. But some of the pitch checks I made on my Bb and A were with the new technique, and some were without. I think I've got that clarified now, and I think I can play either way on either or any clarinet - but I want the new sound. New sound, old pitch. I'm working on it.

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Philip Caron

2023-07-20 21:20