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From: allegra/eosp1/robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: tempered scales with wind instruments.
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 12:57:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 16 12:57:12 1984
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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
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