Equal temperament of course has its place as does chromaticism, but I think
except for keyboard-players, who can't (unless they have split-key harpsichords
or such like), even when playing highly chromatic music the best musicians
constantly tweak their tuning to produce the most harmonious
Also, it's a song and all of the singers I have backed prefer that key.
Yes, it would be horribly high in A min unless you were a natural light tenor.
And finally, as an instrumental it makes a loamishly
lovely springboard to dive into P B's P.
I don't know PBP but BAM sounds wonderful
I set my Korg DA 30 to 446 using the calibration button
and take it
Sorry to be a nuisance (again!), but what note on the chanter do you tune for
zero deviation of the needle? The (nominal) G or the (nominal) B? (or other?)
Thanks
CB
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM, [1]christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
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Also, it's a song and all of the singers I have backed prefer
that key.
Yes, it would be horribly high in A min unless you were a natural
light tenor.
Fair enough. George Welch sings it in B
I think of the simpler Bewick and the more ornate NM version together as the
germ of a short variation set. But they would need some tweaking to fit - the
NM version is certainly not hexatonic.
John
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Good points.
I suppose as the pipes are essentially a solo instrument, it wouldn't matter
what note they sounded provided the things were in tune with themselves.
That's essentially true for many rural instruments (I remember making penny
whistles from elder wood as a child and goodness knows
Which were tuned with reference to..
Colin Hill
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Tuning/pitch
Before the tuning fork was invented,
In a large number of cities, the tuning standard was taken from the organ
(specifically the flue pipes) in the church, the cathedral, or the local
ruler's chapel. That pitch in turn tended to be determined by the particular
organ-builder - say Silbermann - who transported his preferred pitch from
