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Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?

Author: Dutchy  Date:   2007-12-20 16:28 I've been playing along with a whole collection of CDs for nearly three years now. A lot of the method books come with a playalong CD, and I've been making my own accompaniment CDs using MusicMasterworks with JetAudio to convert the mp3 files to .wav files so I can burn them onto a CD (I've got the second part to the first 8 Barret on my own CD)... And I've never had problems playing in tune with any of them. When I was just starting out, flatness issues were obviously a factor of embouchure and technique non-development, which tended to self-correct immediately as I figured out how to make the thing "go", and also as I started spending money on better reeds. But it's been smooth sailing ever since, pitch-wise. Until this week. ...when I received this CD, along with the oboe part, and started practicing, only to find myself dismayingly and obviously at least 6 cents flat in the lower register, and a few cents flat in the usually sharper upper register. And no amount of biting, lipping, or rolling seems to help. This is way beyond "roll it up to pitch" territory. That low Db on the "All Who Pass This Way" just groans miserably every time it comes around, making me sound like a fifth grader who just picked up the instrument last week. So I wondered if anybody else has this CD, and if perhaps the Bethlehem Singers & Players tuned themselves to A=442, back in 1998. What do you do, if you walk in and discover that everybody else in your ensemble has decided to tune to A=442?

Topics	Author	Date
Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?  new	Dutchy	2007-12-20 16:28
Re: Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?  new	hautbois	2007-12-20 17:40
Re: Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?  new	cjwright	2007-12-20 23:01
Re: Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?  new	hautbois	2007-12-20 23:59
Re: Does anybody else have this Hopson Tenebrae CD, and is it sharp?  new	Chris P	2007-12-20 23:47

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