String Intonation

[Don]

Hi Bradley,

I believe you are suggesting playing notes melodically (i.e. one after
another never sounding together) to set a temperament. This would leave a
disaster. It doesn't even work for octaves usually leaving them "super
stretched".

I disagree with your statement about current practise. I freelanced for a
long long time Bradley. I won't repeat myself further. 

Would you consider the Orford quartet a good one?

What about the Academy of St Martin in the fields? Good enough?

All musicians in orchestras try to do is *fit*. All that chamber musicians
do is try to play in tune--whether it be to a piano or a well tempered or a
mean tone tuning.

At 03:01 PM 4/26/02 -0700, you wrote:
>   Don, the research that I was talking about dealt  with melodic placement
>of individual notes (i.e. cello intonation is not based  on melodic
>movement). This deals with a musicians ability to actually temper a 
>melodic scale. The point is that small alterations in distance can be made 
>without much notice to the listener: the act of tempering a simple melody
>is not  a significant event. Surly everyone on this list is aware of this.
>If not, next  time use ONLY melodic movement to set your temperament.
>Please let me know how  close you get . . .     violinist alter melodic
>intonation all the  time, but this is not based simply on the movement of
>the melody.      interested  in. You want to see something that says that
>strings should use just intonation.  That is not really research, that is
>simply [current] common practice in the  profession.    opinion.       Don
>or Susan, you have never really said why  you do not think it necessary for
>strings (brass sections, or vocals for that  matter) to use just intervals.
>The entire history of temperament has sought to  preserve as many just
>intervals on the keyboard as possible. Do you think that  because we use
>EQT on pianos that we also use EQT on all other instruments?     Bradley M
>Snook   

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca
http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/

3004 Grant Rd.
REGINA, SK
S4S 5G7
306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner