Audience throws off pitch...correction

[David Renaud]

Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:
> Are you sure his clarinet wasn't going flat because
of _his_ warm  moist breath going through it?

A wind instrument like clarinet gets sharper not 
flatter as it warms up, the opposite of strings.
Cold is very flat, hot very sharp.

This is interesting for and orchestra coming into
a cold hall as they warm up and the sections are
drifting in opposite directions.

                       Cheers
                       Dave Renaud
                       RPT
                      (And woodwind specialist) ;-)  

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