On 4/6/07, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> Well, it is impossible if you are using a fixed-pitch instrument. > With talented singers, it's almost impossible to have any fifth or > third not perfect. Do understand you here. Do you mean that talented singers can only sing perfect fifths or thirds? Or that talented singers can't? I know quite a few singers (talented) that can sing whatever you put in front of them.
Primarily I was trying to say that singers of any caliber are not limited by tempered scales. In addition I was trying to say that singers with any kind of ear are going to have a hard time singing a fifth of 700 cents, or a major third of exactly 400 cents. Benade's studies showed that very good musicians, even those who swore by 12-tone ET, when presented with sine tones 400 cents apart, identified them as being slightly sharp thirds. Which they are. But it means that extreme conditioning to 12-tone ET does not make one recognize it as more in tune than just intervals. Of course there are a few musicians out there, including singers, who devote lots of study to 12-tone serialism etc, but I'd have to see some hard data before being convinced that they hit 400-cent thirds and 700-cent fifths perfectly. -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
