[EMAIL PROTECTED] (SUZANNE MACDONALD) writes:
Altering the intervals of the most perfect instrument to those of the
primitive and very imperfect one makes no musical sense nor any other
sense
Well, both these comments come from fiddlers so what do you expect? Of
course a fiddler would
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Anselm Lingnau wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (SUZANNE MACDONALD) writes:
Altering the intervals of the most perfect instrument to those of the
primitive and very imperfect one makes no musical sense nor any other
sense
Well, both these comments come from fiddlers
In response to my Tues 19:00 e-mail Anselm Lingnau wrote:
Quoting me:
Altering the intervals of the most perfect instrument to those of
the primitive and very imperfect one makes no musical sense nor any
other sense.
Anselm's comment:
Well, both these comments come from fiddlers so what do
simply out of tune
[temporarily emerging from real life to comment]
Although I have great respect for Alexander MacDonald's considerable
knowledge of Scottish/Cape Breton fiddle music and physics of sound
production, I think that out of tune tones have their place in music. I
sometimes witness
Pipers have the advantage that they don't have all those obnoxious
pseudo-classical crossover players hanging around trying to tell them how
to play. There are no strathspey and reel societies for pipers. Just
pipe bands/bagpipe playing drinking clubs.
Are you kidding? Just like any
Alexander wrote:
If the interval between A and a flatted C#
were a deliberate musical choice in the key of A major then the interval
between G and B in the key of G major should also be a flatted B. It
never is.
You've never tuned a guitar by ear then. One of the nice things about
the
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:
Pipers have the advantage that they don't have all those obnoxious
pseudo-classical crossover players hanging around trying to tell them how
to play. There are no strathspey and reel societies for pipers. Just
pipe
the offending notes sometimes have more to do with the fingering on
the fiddle and how difficult it is to play them. Therefore, it is not
necessarily the same intervals which offend in each key. This I can
see because for instance, I have a terrible time playing in tune in E
major. It
Pipers have the advantage that they don't have all those obnoxious
pseudo-classical crossover players hanging around trying to tell them
how to play. There are no strathspey and reel societies for pipers.
Just pipe bands/bagpipe playing drinking clubs.
Yep, but the piping world does have
In response to my comment;
If the interval between A and a flatted C#
were a deliberate musical choice in the key of A major then the
interval
between G and B in the key of G major should also be a flatted B. It
never is.
David Kilpatrick wrote:
You've never tuned a guitar by ear then.
My
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