[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
Tempered Tuning This is a method of tuning that addresses all of the above factors. In essence, this method takes the inharmonicity of all six strings and the slight mathematical discrepancy between the whole scales and divides the variation equally among each string. This means that while no one chord or interval is perfect (and it is physically impossible for them all to be perfect), they are all only slightly off. But off by such a small, consistent amount that no ordinary ear can detect any dissonance. What follow are the steps to achieve this tempered tuning. You can learn it quickly. Master it and you will tune your guitar quicker and slicker than the other kids on the block! Fail to master it, and studies show you will spend 7.52 years of your life tuning your guitar. http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html I learned this method of temper-tuning a guitar while I was a professional piano tuner in Ohio about 24 years ago. View on www.ryan... http://www.ryanguitars.com/GuitarTech-Tuning.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : MS, It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for symphonies now. I have a niece who started out with playing the flute and ended up at Guildehall in London getting her Masters int the French Horn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildhall_School_of_Music_and_Drama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildhall_School_of_Music_and_Drama To a gifted musician, the world itself is a symphony of music. One of Greek philosophers coined the term "music of the spheres" to describe the function of the various planets in the zodiac. IMO, the "music" refers to the wave functions for each of the planets which affect our brains and physiology. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized tuning of 440 because to her ear 440 was normal. When she was young and would hang out with my daughter, she would identify the pitches of all the different sounds like printers transformer noise etc. Got to be a joke after awhile. http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
My son who plays bass professionally has relative pitch which means he can determine a secondary note from hearing in his head an E note. The note is always E so he has to work his way up or down the scale to figure out the secondary note.This is probably developed. Perfect pitch on the other hand seems to be a talent your born with because it's uncanny how Matar can tell you the pitch-note and frequency, sharp ,flat or natural immediately with no calculation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
Has the Department of Homeland Security been notified? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Friend of my daughters was playing our plano. she looked up at me and said this piano is flat, it's tuned to 436 instead of 440. It just so happened that the piano had been tuned to 436 intentionally a few hours before she sat down to play it.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
I've never quite understood perfect pitch because musical tunings have evolved arbitrarily unless some frequency just seemed "right" to some people. I worked with a pianist who claimed to have perfect pitch and would bring a tuning kit to gigs to fix and instrument he had to play on. I need to look up if there is some physiological theory on why some people develop "perfect pitch." On 09/13/2015 11:42 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: MS, It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for symphonies now. To a gifted musician, the world itself is a symphony of music. One of Greek philosophers coined the term "music of the spheres" to describe the function of the various planets in the zodiac. IMO, the "music" refers to the wave functions for each of the planets which affect our brains and physiology. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized tuning of 440 because to her ear 440 was normal. When she was young and would hang out with my daughter, she would identify the pitches of all the different sounds like printers transformer noise etc. Got to be a joke after awhile. http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
MS, It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for symphonies now. To a gifted musician, the world itself is a symphony of music. One of Greek philosophers coined the term "music of the spheres" to describe the function of the various planets in the zodiac. IMO, the "music" refers to the wave functions for each of the planets which affect our brains and physiology. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized tuning of 440 because to her ear 440 was normal. When she was young and would hang out with my daughter, she would identify the pitches of all the different sounds like printers transformer noise etc. Got to be a joke after awhile. http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized tuning of 440 because to her ear 440 was normal. When she was young and would hang out with my daughter, she would identify the pitches of all the different sounds like printers transformer noise etc. Got to be a joke after awhile. http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/776/why-are-orchestras-tuned-differently
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
MS, I had a friend while in college who proved to me that he had perfect pitch. While he was on the other room, I played on the piano several notes one at a time. And he named all of the notes that I played. I was impressed. He was our guitar player at the time. But he majored in Engineering at UC Berkeley, and did not stay in music as a professional career. I myself am self-taught in playing the piano. There is much to know about the subject. There's a guy on YouTube who is an excellent teacher for playing jazz. He's got a video on how to use the various scales and modes while playing during solos and improvisations. I'm practicing some of his concepts now and it's improved my playing as well. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Friend of my daughters was playing our plano. she looked up at me and said this piano is flat, it's tuned to 436 instead of 440. It just so happened that the piano had been tuned to 436 intentionally a few hours before she sat down to play it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
Wikipedia: A440 or A4, which has a frequency of 440 Hz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz, is the musical note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(musical_note) above middle C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_C and serves as a general tuning standard for musical pitch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(music). Prior to the standardization on 440 Hz, many countries and organizations followed the Austrian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austriagovernment's 1885 recommendation of 435 Hz, which had also been the French standard since the 1860s.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)#cite_note-1 The American music industry reached an informal standard of 440 Hz in 1926, and some began using it in instrument manufacturing. In 1936 the American Standards Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Standards_Associationrecommended that the A above middle C be tuned to 440 Hz.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)#cite_note-2 This standard was taken up by theInternational Organization for Standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization in 1955 (reaffirmed by them in 1975) as ISO 16.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)#cite_note-3 Although not universally accepted, since then it has served as the audio frequency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency reference for the calibration of acoustic equipment and the tuning of pianos, violins, and other musical instruments.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??
Friend of my daughters was playing our plano. she looked up at me and said this piano is flat, it's tuned to 436 instead of 440. It just so happened that the piano had been tuned to 436 intentionally a few hours before she sat down to play it.
