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Re: Intervals enharmony question
From: |
Hans Åberg |
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Re: Intervals enharmony question |
Date: |
Tue, 1 May 2018 10:13:59 +0200 |
> On 1 May 2018, at 04:53, Vaughan McAlley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 1 May 2018 at 06:27, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Flutes have a very definite pitch, making it hard to play in unison, unlike
>> strings then. It is mentioned in Blatter's book on orchestration.
>
> Flutes can adjust their pitch enough to tune well. I'm mainly a singer, but
> when I play flute (my first instrument) I approach pitching like a singer,
> and I rarely have tuning issues.
I also think that the flute is quite close to singing in terms of
expressibility.
> But flute-wise, this is a pretty advanced technique.
I trained pitch by holding on certain notes and check against a tuner,
originally a teacher, but then an electronic one.
> And flute players have to spend a lot of time practicing the semiquavers that
> composers so love to give them :-)
The flute is easy if practising a lot. :-)
> First & second flute in a professional orchestra should be able to play a
> unison passage just fine. I have sung in the Bach St John Passion a number of
> times, and rarely hear problems with Ich folge dir gleichfalls, and that's
> using baroque flutes…
It maybe be easier with those, having a softer sound.
> One of the major features of Boehm's (ie the modern) flute is that tuning (in
> equal temperament) is more consistent. So maybe less thought is put into
> tuning by players.
The pitches are quite uneven if measured electronically. In addition, the scale
was not originally adjusted when the tuning rose to about 440 Hz; this is done
in Cooper flutes.
> (Good recorder players have all sorts of tuning tricks, I believe)
Another post mentioned some.
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Shane Brandes, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Malte Meyn, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question,
Hans Åberg <=
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Hans Åberg, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Hans Åberg, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, David Kastrup, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Hans Åberg, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, David Kastrup, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, Hans Åberg, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, J Martin Rushton, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, David Kastrup, 2018/05/01
- Re: Intervals enharmony question, J Martin Rushton, 2018/05/01
Re: Intervals enharmony question, Jacques Menu Muzhic, 2018/05/02