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2004-10-11

 
From: "John Kilpatrick" 
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:14:59 +0100


I've always wondered why the three Eb's on my clarinet don't sound quite the same.
John K

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From: "Wik Bohdanowicz"
Subject: Re: [CB] Tuning:
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:38:08 +0100


 >the loudness of a tone can strongly affect our subjective impression of its pitch.

One of the reasons for choosing A (of whatever pitch), I believe,  for tuning is that above and below the middle 400s Hz  people imagine that that pitch moves up or down with volume.  Around the middle 400Hz range it doesn't seem to move.

Wik

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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:01:45 -0400
From: Lawrence de Martin
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]


This is the best idea I have heard - but on a clavichord you can bend the notes with after touch, no?

This all started for me transcribing a piece written on guitar with bent notes.  If you start with four to seven fixed tones and can adjust the rest with technique, perfect intonation is more easily obtainable.

Larry de Martin

p.s. I have been hearing a lot of natural horns (New York Early Music Celebration).  The good players intone Justly, and the others not so Well.


  wrote:
>  Xenharmonikon magazine years ago had an article & cover photo re a
> clavichord with 19 tones per octave.  There were sharps above the
> naturals, and flats below! 
> - Tim Tikker

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From: "Oscar Wehmanen"
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:26:15 GMT
Subject: [CB] It's not going to happen with any modern omnitonic


It will happen. All it takes is an electronic that has enough smarts to recognise the chord being played and adjust the tuning of the notes appropriatly.  In a day when computer chips are running at Gigahertz speeds, real time adjustment is not going to be a problem for electronic sounds.

For a pipe organ, the pipe could be mechanically adjusted very quickly, but the easier solution would be pipes that can be lipped with the fipple or reed replaced with an electronic driver.

Oscar
(713) 729-1972

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