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Post by edcat7 on Apr 30, 2012 15:39:02 GMT
I was practising my C dizi with my teacher and he said it was too high. So I tried another one of mine....and another and he said all of them were too high!
My first suspicion were that his one was too low. When I got home and tested them on the tuner all were indeed too high. They need extending about 1cm which I hate doing because it changes the look and feel of the dizi.
Is it possible to tamper with the cork in the head joint? Or it it too risky?
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Post by davidmdahl on Apr 30, 2012 18:51:25 GMT
The position of the cork, or whatever stops the air column at the embouchure end of a dizi, affects the tuning of octaves. If it is out-of-position, the tuning in the upper octaves will be off. I don't recommend changing the cork position if the dizi appears to be in tune with itself.
If you don't have a tuning joint, you might have some luck by changing embouchure position. In general, rotate the embouchure hole out to raise the pitch and rotate the hole in to lower the pitch. If you cover the hole too much, the sound wil not be quite as good. You do need some flexibility at the embouchure to change the pitch, so if you are using all of the flexibility to get the basic pitch up or down, you will not have much left for fixing individual notes. This is where a tuning joint really becomes useful. In my experience, you can change the pitch a lot by changing how you position the dizi at your mouth, so you might experiment with a tuner.
Best wishes,
David
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Post by edcat7 on Apr 30, 2012 21:52:16 GMT
Thanks David, will give it a go. Rotating the embouchure hole to change the pitch was not something I was aware of or noticed,
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Post by edcat7 on May 1, 2012 10:17:31 GMT
Yes, Yes...it works! I was on the point of sending a disparaging letter to the next vendor I buy a dizi from  |
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Post by mitchellt on Mar 30, 2015 3:09:33 GMT
Hi Everyone!
Ive just got a "G" Dizi and it seems to be playing the note of "D" when it is blown with all holes held. I was checking out this post and dont know the parts of the Dizi atall. So, the Embrouchure is the hole you blow right? how is it that I would rotate this on a wooden Dizi? Any help is greatly appreciated, as the vendor is simply telling me that it can be tuned to G?
Thank you
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Post by davidmdahl on Mar 30, 2015 5:52:16 GMT
Welcome to the forum, mitchellt. The Chinese name their flutes differently than we do in the West, by the pitch sounded with the three left-hand holes covered. If you cover these holes on a G dizi, you should hear the pitch G. Your dizi will play tunes in the keys of G and D. If you want a Chinese dizi that sounds a G with all six holes covered, you will need to order a dizi in C.
What is your plan with the dizi, to play Chinese tunes, or your own stuff?
Best wishes,
David
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