On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:45:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Not long ago I watched >"Pianomania", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano mania , tuning the >grand piano by this documentation has less to do with A = foobar Hz. >More important seems to be the consistency of the grand piano's >mechanic and tuning within whatever is the chamber pitch. > >Apart from this, a friend of mine, Achim Jaroschek, a much praised >German Jazz pianist and drummer, a while back owned 2 Bechstein and one >Baldwin grand piano. All grand pianos were tune relatively good to his >taste, but we were unable to do a good home recording, due to the >missing microphones for this task. > >What ever the chamber pitch might be, more important is the consistency >of the tuning, not necessarily regarding the pitch, but regarding the >emotions of the piano player, regarding the consistency of the grand >pianos behaviour and apart from this, as soon as you want to record the >piano, much more important is the available gear. > >I really doubt that the tuning of the chamber pitch by itself does much >affect the result of a performance. > >Indeed, decades ago, when I used the Roland MT-32, not with it's >factory sounds, but with self edited sounds, that should emulate >analog synth, I several times tuned it a little bit below 440Hz, >because this added more warmth, while all the other analog and digital >synth wer tuned to 440 Hz. However, when ever I tested pitches <> 440 >Hz nobody ever listening to the recordings, including myself, felt >better at any pitch higher or lower lower 440 Hz. > >A tuning that differs to 440 Hz could be important for live performance >of classic orchestras for several reasons, but is most likely is >irrelevant when making music with electronically instruments. Apart >from this the tuning usually is higher than 440 Hz, due to >loudness/transparency/brilliant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_p >itch#Pitch_inflation . > >In rock music guitarist's, I'm one myself, sometimes tend to either >tune in relation to 440 Hz all strings a half tone lower, I don't, or >as several people from my generation (generation x, aka grunch) and I >do sometimes, drop the low E string to D, IOW just one string a whole >step lower, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_D_tuning ;, however, A >still remains at 440 Hz. PS: Consider a drop D tuning more like something compared to an open tuning used for e.g. Dobro played on the lap or sometimes for bottleneck played guitars. I prefer to play bottleneck without an open tuning. Anyway, all tunings are usually related to A = 440 Hz, they just fit to a harmony, Dobro played on the lap often is tuned to G major, when played completely open. This at least was what a friend always used and it seems to fit to most of the new and classic blue grass music he used to listen too. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
