[LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments

2009-11-19 Thread demery
> If we're discussing equal temperament and modern concepts of key > signatures, > I can't envision why you'd want to double flat a B in favor of just saying > "A". Unfortunately, we have heard from one brass player who has a crook labeled Bbb, reflecting the actual pitch of nominal Bb in A=415.

[LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments

2009-11-19 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
rtmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:00 AM > To: William Brohinsky > Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments > > > > I believe that the Bbb you are seeing > > Not seeing it at all, and

[LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments

2009-11-19 Thread demery
> I believe that the Bbb you are seeing Not seeing it at all, and never claimed to have done. Wondering if there is any excuse for it. Please read what I wrote people! Am writing software that depends on descriptions of instruments for playback from tablature, a nominal pitch + an interval lis

[LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments

2009-11-18 Thread David Tayler
No reason not to call an instrument in B Flat; historically they more often used terms like alto, tenor, followed by hexachord syllables, then "pitches". The reason is that they used a transposing system. So if you really want to think like they thought, it is better to think in a transposing sy

[LUTE] Re: nominal pitch for instruments

2009-11-18 Thread William Brohinsky
I believe that the Bbb you are seeing refers to something like the BBb tuba, and the second b is lower case because of someone's overagressive capitalization-correction system. In BBb tuba, the doubled capital B shows the octave that the note is in, and the last b represents the flat. This is a no