In a message dated 9/12/2005 8:25:38 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
As such, I would be very surprised if the strings didn't add a shiny, strange reverb quality to certain notes coming from the horn. The problem, musically speaking, would be that the speed of the playback would need to give a musical pitch equal to the tuning of the strings -- i.e., if the strings were tuned relative to A=440Hz and the record played back just a little off, the strings would sound awful. As we know, 78.26 didn't become a universally observed standard until many years after the acoustic recording era, and even modern turntables are rarely dead-on (not to mention that many lathes weren't spot-on during the original recording sessions anyway), so unless you tuned the strings for each record or tuned the phonograph's speed to the strings for each record, they ain't gonna sound none too purty. Best to all, Robert Well now Robert...that makes the most sense of all. Tune the record to the strings...but don't try to tune the strings to the record. After all, isn't that what the speed control is for? That's all good and well, but it still doesn't tell me which of the strings on a Klingsor should be tuned to "A" 440 and whether it was intended to provide half steps, whole steps, or octaves. Of course, all this is academic since it probably never mattered anyway!!!! This is a fun discussion, but quoting Shakespeare, signifying nothing. ---Art
