Thanks for pointing out this resource, Rob. Interesting, enjoyable
and, I think, useful.
This issue of pitch sensitivity prompts a couple of questions which
always bother me. How often do you hear a group of NSP players
establishing an achievable common pitch before starting to play? And
what's with this lamentable F + 20 cents pitch 'standard' which has
no relevance to anything else in the musical world?
Francis
On 2 Mar 2009, at 10:42, rob....@milecastle27.co.uk wrote:
.. Or rather "How good is my differentiation of tones?"
A friend pointed this site out to me the other day:
http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/
It measures how you differentiate between two tones and whether you
can hear which is higher and lower. If you have ever described
yourself as tone deaf, have a go .. then really concentrate and have
another go ..
The test is adaptive so the better you are the harder it gets. Once
you're into the realm if 2 or 3 Hz, that means being able to tell
the difference betweeen different tempered scales.
There are a bunch of other related things on rhythm and musical
memory but ths one struck me as being particularly relevent to
piper's. If you lack confidence in tuning or don't know where to
start, it's a very simple way of understanding (and improving) what
you can hear.
cheers
Rob
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