Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

> Le 27 mai 2016 à 08:16, Michael Hendry <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Other instruments are constructed and tuned so as to sound good in certain 
> keys and not so good in others, so it’s feasible that an orchestra could 
> sound better playing in sharp keys.

I was told that the open string settings of the string sections providing 
natural harmonics in sharp keys explains that.

> Why aren’t trumpets and clarinets made a bit shorter, so that they don’t have 
> to have transposed parts?

It looks like those in Bb are the best compromise. Shorter clarinets in C 
produce a rather harsh sound, not to speak of the Eb (sopranino) oboe.

JM