Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> writes: >> David Kastrup > I'm lacking knowldege here. All I know is that in simple orchestras > are using electronic tuners here. So they don't care about whether a > note is 2 cents higher or not.
Trust me, a violinist cares whether he has tuned reasonably pure fifths or not. He'll stop tuning when he has to, but be less happy in the process. And I have been singing in choirs specializing in old music, and yes, you learn which intervals you have to take how flat or sharp compared to the equally tempered keyboard. > I've never seen pitch annotations such as +10cent on notes. So most > music huge masses plays from paper doesnt care about it. It depends on > the musician playing. Singers, wind instruments, brass instruments, (unfretted) string instruments: all those are _correcting_ their pitches semiautomatically in order to get reasonably pure intervals and harmonies. When tuning an orchestra, there is a hierarchy of instruments consulted for concert pitch, depending on how hard they are to tune/pitchbend: if you have an organ, it rules. If not, other keyboard instruments follow, then the hautboys and so on. String players are most flexible. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
