source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:33:11 +0200 Subject: RE: Comments on the importance of tuning in New Scientist. From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >I'd like to add, as a reminder of something most of us no doubt have found by >experience, that the "subtle" differences in pitch, though often difficult >for the untrained ear to detect *as pitch differences*, can, and often do, >make a dramatic difference in the timbre of the ensemble (or of the chord in >the case of a single polyphonic instrument). That's true, and harkens back to Ivor Darreg's notion of moods: Even if no one chord sustains long enough be evaluated in isolation, the cummulative effects can still come through. But the tuning deviations have to be fairly consistent for that to occur clearly. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:22 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA24531; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:22:37 +0200 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:22:37 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA24564 Received: (qmail 13026 invoked from network); 15 Jun 1997 09:22:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 1997 09:22:28 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu