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From: SUZANNE MACDONALD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> tone..." I often disagree with what an electric tuner says is in tune
i bought a really fancy electronic tuner to help tune whistes. i used it for
my guitar one day, and my (now) wife (the violinist) says, "that second
st
Wendy writes:
| I'm not a big fan of electronic tuners either - my favorite tuning "device"
| is a tuning fork.. no batteries to run down, and no annoying little needle
| jumping around alternately indicating both sharp and flat on the same string.
I'm not a fan of either, though I own
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:38, you wrote:
> >An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
> >what your ear is "measuring", hearing, on a "note" on an acoustic
> >instrument is much more.
>
> I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!). Does the
> ringing of the for
> >An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
>>what your ear is "measuring", hearing, on a "note" on an acoustic
>>instrument is much more.
The electronic tuner doesn't measure the fundamental based on an A440
scale - it frequency-divides based on the fundamental which it is set
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:
> >An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
> >what your ear is "measuring", hearing, on a "note" on an acoustic
> >instrument is much more.
>
> I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!).
I
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 13:46, you wrote:
> In an e-mail whose subject was "What makes a style Scottish?"
>
> Nigel Gatherer wrote:
> I was also fascinated by Alexander's statement: "The ear's perception
> of a note can vary so greatly that the literature uses two terms;
> "frequency"...and "p
>An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
>what your ear is "measuring", hearing, on a "note" on an acoustic
>instrument is much more.
I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!). Does the
ringing of the fork include the other harmonics etc. and might that be why
Alexander writes:
| ... Under certain circumstances,
| when two notes sounded simultaneously are only a few cycles apart, the
| ear finds the result pleasing, giving a vibrato effect [sort of].
| However when this occurs, the ear's perception of the note is the
| average of the two n
In an e-mail whose subject was "What makes a style Scottish?"
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I was also fascinated by Alexander's statement: "The ear's perception
of a note can vary so greatly that the literature uses two terms;
"frequency"...and "pitch"...and the two can vary by as much as a whole
tone..
I was given a copy of;
Kerr's
Violin Instructor
and
Irish Folk-Song Album
Containing
158 Irish Airs
Glasgow
James S Kerr, Berkley Street, G3 7DX
March to the Battlefield appears as tune 52. In two sharps in 2/4 time.
"Tempo di marcia"
The book is undated. It appears to be a modern reprint
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