On 8/4/14 6:12 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Tobiah wrote:
Our ears are in tune with a different set of practices
now (at least the general public). Perhaps if we looked up from anthropology
It’s not anthropology. It’s the instruction manual. If you pay thousands of
Dear collected wisdom:
I recently bought a software tuner that had support for non-equal
temperaments. One of the preset temperaments under the Meantone menu is
1/6 SC Attenuated. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that 1/6 SC is 1/6
Syntonic Comma, which I assume is 6 Comma Meantone.
But if I'm co
tuner, maybe someone can dig up a cents or frequency
list, or tou can make one with another tuner(app) that displays
frequencies. The old Korg MT-1200 came with a booklet with such a list,
very enlightening.
David
On Thursday, March 5, 2015, doug asherman <[1]dashe...@sonic.net&g
15:01, doug asherman wrote:
Hi David:
Thanks very much for the info. The tuner is Cleartune for the
iPad/iPhone.
Great idea, making a list -- I'll see if I can find a tuner that
displays frequencies and work from there.
Best,
Doug
On 3/4/15 11:12 PM, David van Oo
e the same
thing. In any case, I'll just use my phone to tune in most situations.
Thanks again to everyone.
On 3/5/15 6:28 AM, doug asherman wrote:
I found the mode that allows me to see the frequencies; it acts as
sort of a pitch pipe. I'll look at this a little more later today.
There's the old Van Eps method for guitar, which may not be what you're
looking for, but you can get it here:
http://www.djangobooks.com/Item/vaneps_method.
Then there's the set of "Harmonic Mechanisms for Guitar" which I believe
comes in 2 or 3 books. I've looked through the first of these, a
I believe that Douglas Alton Smith (author of "A History of the Lute
from Antiquity to the Renaissance") also plays banjo.
Gustav Leonhardt played the banjo? -- that's a surprise!
On 3/15/15 1:50 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
I think it more pertinent to this forum to mention the number of lute
It's a pity you can't get these set up as downloads on CDBaby or
Bandcamp. Does the record company own the albums?
On 3/18/15 11:30 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
I don't know. I've had albums on a few companies, and some of them have
gone to the wall, and not once have they ever informed the
;t do
that well with enthusiasm anymore.
Doug
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 18 Mar 2015, at 18:42, doug asherman wrote:
It's a pity you can't get these set up as downloads on CDBaby or Bandcamp. Does
the record company own the albums?
On 3/18/15 11:30 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
I d
After reading this, I did a few experiments. I tuned my guitar to A432
-- it sounds fine (I mean, you know, for an equal temperament
instrument). I'll probably keep it that way for a while.
Then I ripped some music to my computer and applied a pitch shift to it.
Oddly, while Bob Marley sounds
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