On 25 Feb 2008 at 14:25, Ray Horton wrote: > This would play into my earlier points concerning relative power of > conductor and players, also value of instruments.
I'm certain I heard the Cleveland Orchestra do it back in the 80s when I lived in Cleveland. And just a quick Google picks up a report that they did it in 2002. I don't think your point has any merit whatsoever. It doesn't reflect anything rational about the way stringed instruments actually work. It may be true that lots of string players have voodoo ideas about their instruments, but that doesn't mean there's any basis in fact for those ideas. I talked to a professional violinist about it last night and he said the concern was totally crazy. Yes, retuning changes the balance of the instrument for the time that it's retuned, but if the instrument has nothing wrong with it physically, it will go back to its natural balance after being tuned back to standard tuning (with perhaps some slight adjustment to bridge angle). He said he used to play the Biber scordatura pieces all the time and never used a second instrument, nor encountered any problems with either of the tunings. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
