Hi Joe, Yes, the definition pitch has been debated for years and music has been written specifically for instruments bearing different scales however, my request is to enter the sound I have come to identify as proper with the instruments I play. After 50 years of playing music and with seven CDs under my belt, I'm probably not going to find another pitch to sound correct. A manual pitch entry would be a benefit to me, not so much for the oft varied Rx pitch but for my ears when I'm transmitting over long periods.
73, Gary KA1J > > This probably is of little interest to most but I would like the > > ability to fine tune the pitch in closer than 10 Hz increments. I'm a > > musician and have for practical purposes, perfect pitch. > > Since A has varied considerably over the centuries, what musicians call > "perfect pitch" is only so in relation to the modern A440 standard and > only for one set of scales. The tones are different for other scales > and other time periods. > > It's difficult to say B 489.95 (Vienna Opera, 1834) or A# 469.34 > (Wolfels, 1835) is "wrong" given the variation in "standard pitch" > as reported in the article you cite. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 12/11/2011 12:03 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > > This probably is of little interest to most but I would like the > > ability to fine tune the pitch in closer than 10 Hz increments. I'm a > > musician and have for practical purposes, perfect pitch. I have my > > pitch set at 590 which is the closest approximation to the proper > > pitch for "D" (which is 587.33) When I have the pitch set to 590, I > > know it's almost a "D" note but it's a bit disquieting at the same > > time. > > > > A = 440 and while I can select this, it's low a tone to be pleasing > > on CW. A pure note on the scale would be such a pleasure to hear, > > much more psychoacousticly pleasing. > > > > Actual frequencies for all the individual notes are here: > > http://www.piano-tuners.org/history/pitch.html > > > > Any way the powers that be might also allow an entry to pitch from > > the keypad, like when we use it to select Rf frequency? > > > > Thanks, > > Gary > > KA1J > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
