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== Microtonal fingerings for normal clarinet == | |||
=Microtonal fingerings for normal clarinet= | |||
Quartertone cross fingerings are widespread (and apparently standard technique in French orchestral playing today), but certain pitches right above the break have no fingerings. | Quartertone cross fingerings are widespread (and apparently standard technique in French orchestral playing today), but certain pitches right above the break have no fingerings. | ||
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Also worth mentioning is the scheme for making a small xenharmonic clarinet by connecting the mouthpiece directly to the lower joint. This fits only on certain clarinets, and it produces a macrotonal scale with no high register. | Also worth mentioning is the scheme for making a small xenharmonic clarinet by connecting the mouthpiece directly to the lower joint. This fits only on certain clarinets, and it produces a macrotonal scale with no high register. | ||
=Actual microtonal clarinets= | == Actual microtonal clarinets == | ||
All clarinets are tuned to an inexact 12EDO. It might be more accurate to describe them as [[19ED3|19ED3 (19 equal divisions of 3/1)]], since they overblow at the twelfth. | All clarinets are tuned to an inexact 12EDO. It might be more accurate to describe them as [[19ED3|19ED3 (19 equal divisions of 3/1)]], since they overblow at the twelfth. | ||
==Quarter-tone clarinets== | === Quarter-tone clarinets === | ||
{{Wikipedia|Quarter tone clarinet}} | |||
A quartertone clarinet was designed in 1937 by Fritz Schüller. It uses two parallel tubes, one slightly longer than the other, with a single key to switch between them. | |||
==Bohlen-Pierce clarinets== | === Bohlen-Pierce clarinets === | ||
The [http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/bpclar.html Bohlen-Pierce clarinet project] by Stephen Fox (instigated by Georg Hajdu) has so far resulted in the building of a soprano clarinet in the [[BP|BP scale (13ED3)]]; the scale seems ideal for clarinet in particular. | The [http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/bpclar.html Bohlen-Pierce clarinet project] by Stephen Fox (instigated by Georg Hajdu) has so far resulted in the building of a soprano clarinet in the [[BP|BP scale (13ED3)]]; the scale seems ideal for clarinet in particular. | ||