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DevinThe Clarinet is a conical tube. The longer the tube the lower the note, the shorter the tube the higher the note. Typically, tuning the clarinet is done by adjusting the length of the tube at the either the joint where the barrel meets the upper joint or where the barrel meets the mouthpiece.
First of all, check your Concert B-flat - that is to say the third space C against a tuner. If you are flat check to see all of the joints of the clarinet are completely together and you are using a firm embouchure. If you find you are sharp (high), pull out a little bit at a time between the tuning barrel and upper joint of your instrument until you match the pitch on the tuner. If you want to check further, test out your middle C. Notes around this area of the instrument can further be adjusted by pulling out/pushing in at the middle of the clarinet between the upper and lower joints. Further tuning problems can be addressed with loosening or tightening the embouchure or alternate fingerings the better you get to know your instrument.
You tune a bassoon by adjusting your embouchure (the way your mouth holds the reed). If the bassoon is sharp, then relax your embouchure a little and open your throat more. If it is flat, tighten your embouchure and blow more air. If the note is still flat/sharp once you have mad these adjustments then you need to pull the bocal out or push it in more. If none of the techniques work then you need to take the bassoon to get checked out.
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What instrument is used to tune the band?
All the instruments are tune to the piano. Before an orchestral concert, the musicians will either tune to a note played on the violin by the concertmaster, or an oboist.
What instrument tunes the orchestra?
A standard symphony orchestra can tune to three different members: the principal oboe, the concertmaster, or the solo pianist. The oboist is used to tune whenever there is an oboe in the orchestra, the concertmaster is used whenever there isn't an oboe, and the pianist/keyboardist will play the tuning note if he or she is the soloist for the evening.
Why is the oboe used to tune an orchestra?
The most common reason given is that the oboe is the most difficult to tune and always is tuned to because is piercing and loud. This reason is actually false. The reason the oboe tunes the orchestra is because when orchestras started to develop during Handel's time, the oboe was the most common instrument in the orchestra. It was easier to tune to the oboes since there was so many of them.
Why does the oboe tune the orchestra?
It is generally believed that the oboe is used as the pitch source to tune the orchestra because, of all the instruments, the oboe has the least ability to be varied. In this way of thinking, the oboist makes their reeds and strives to be able to play in tune, and since they can't be adjusted, whatever the oboist comes up with is what everyone has to accept and adjust to. There may be some truth to this legend. On the other hand, the oboe actually has a fairly large range of variability if the reed is well made and the oboist is professional-grade. (Consider this: If oboes were so impossible to tune, how could a Berlioz symphony employ four of them?) In actual fact, today, most orchestra musicians are already well-tuned to electronic tuners before the oboist sounds the first note, and the oboe-note/tuneup session is more for show than for real tuning.
