Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!allegra/eosp1/robison From: allegra/eosp1/robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: tempered scales with wind instruments. Message-ID: <700@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 12:57:12 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.700 Posted: Fri Mar 16 12:57:12 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:29:52 EST References: <6262@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 18 There are notes on some bassoons that are close to 1/4 tone out of tune. Quite a lot of bending is necessary. An important point that no one has mentioned really, is that on some winds (clarinet and bassoon at least in my experience), nobody really gets all the notes in tune to any kind of scale. The clarinet and bassoon get some of their character from playing notes out of tune. The instruments sound different playing their "white note" scales, or playing scales with many accidentalsince the "whitwe notes" are usualy more in tune. On the clarinet there are notes which are slightly out of tune, and almost impossible to adjust. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison