>From kyoung@SLAC.Stanford.EDU Wed Mar 13 12:03:57 2002
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>Why is tsu meri always sharp? (or flat because one is always
>overcompensating)...
Never had a flute where I could "overcompensate" enough to make
tsu-no-meri flat. Would that I did. Masa is always finding
pieces that call for dai-otsu-tsu-no-meri.
I can drag the pitch down to an E flat-flat/almost D, but it's
never enough for a teacher who has perfect pitch (and whose
favorite comment seems to be "INTONATION. INTONATION" :-)
Too sharp? too tight ane embrochure? not enough meri? not enough
practice?
oh, and it's easily the most difficult note on the instrument, yes?
My first teacher told me a story where she went for a group lesson
(I think she said with Yamamoto Hozan) many years ago. The first
thing the teacher had each student do was blow otsu-no-tsu-no-meri.
He immediately knew the level of each student.
maybe we should all be blowing 10 minutes of otsu-no-tsu-no-meri
instead of otsu-no-ro...
bj
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