Toby writes:
| I know about piper's being opinionated, however I still think
| alot of fidder's are even *more* opinionated.
This is especially ironic considering the tuning situation within the
classical crowd. Standard classical teaching brings out the fact that
tempered tuning really arose as a compromise for handling the
limitations of keyboard instruments and orchestras. Groups of all
strings regularly switch to "just" intonation, which makes them sound
better in tune. This is totally accepted in classical circles, and a
string player who doesn't cooperate (or can't hear the difference) is
considered to be playing out of tune. Any competent violinist should
be able to adjust his/her intonation to match the rest of the group.
(All the while looking down at those other instruments because of
their limitations, of course. ;-)
So you'd think that fiddlers with a classical background would know
and understand that different musical groups use different intonation
rules. Traditional Scottish music shouldn't be anything other than
yet another sort of intonation, to be mastered if you want to pass as
a Scottish fiddler.
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