source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 04:17:48 +0200 Subject: Re: Comments on the importance of tuning in New Scientist. From: ikowsoleea@evolution.org (Ivanildo Kowsoleea) Dear Gary, >it comes to how the tuning affects them. Second, there >certainly are plenty of definite-pitched, and at least >much-more-definite-pitched, instruments out there. >Guitars and pianos are extremely common examples of these, >along with electronic instruments. Being a guitarist I must strongly object. No, the guitar (at least classical) is NOT a definite-pitched instrument for that matter. Especially in sustained chords we do manipulate the individual pitches of the tones that make up the chord as to make the sound more pleasant, of course also to compensate for non-ideal strings that may be slightly out of tune especially when playing high up the neck. However I do agree with you that the sustained chords make the bigger impression on the audience which limits the argument. Although we (most musicians) cannot play in any temerament we choose, at least not up to speed we can massage the most important parts just that bit. Please forgive me if this point has already been made. I read the digest version of this list. -------------------------------- Ivanildo Kowsoleea -------------------------------- Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:27 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA29697; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:27:35 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:27:35 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA29698 Received: (qmail 15734 invoked from network); 14 Jun 1997 10:25:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 1997 10:25:50 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu