I believe that needing "perhaps some slight adjustment to bridge angle"
in the middle of a piece, for the entire section of violins, is exactly
what we are discussing here as often impractical.
RBH
David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
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