Hans wrote: > Sorry, what kind of silly questions or innocent questions. Have you never > hear or read anything > about the relations of the natural pitches ? Has your teacher never told > you something about it ?
Innocent, or at worst ignorant, on my part. That's the problem. Yes, I have heard, but not been taught enough. I know about the pitches available in the horn's natural harmonics, but not the problem of which notes of the scale need to be sharper/flatter than the mechanical intervals on my electronic tuner. Nor why... Presumably the relationships stay the same in other keys, but then I hear of certain keys having their own special characteristics, or is that only on the "properly" tuned piano? Can we rely on the clarinets and violins (and even the saxophones) to observe the same conventions, or do their instruments do it automatically so they don't need to think about it? And what happens when the harmony changes? Ah, it would be so nice to be able to say not merely "That note is out of tune" but be able to give an impressive reason explaining why... Simon _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
