Pitch

[Clyde Hollinger]

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Joe,

I assume you are talking about pianos that are very flat, say 50c or more.  This
raises a question in my mind.  If a piano were tuned 40 cents sharp (or flat),
and a hundred good tuners without perfect pitch and without any pitch reference,
were asked to guess, one by one, how sharp or flat the piano is (or if it was at
A440), what do you think the results would be?  Actually, this sounds like a
good PTG chapter experiment, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than half would
decline for fear they'd embarrass themselves.

I bet most of them will guess within + or - 10 cents, because they would be
thinking, "No one in their right mind would tune a piano very sharp or very
flat, because the one is dangerous and the other will mean a lot of work
afterward."  And they would be right.

I'm all for ear training.  I had ear training in college, and I taught ear
training, but nearly all of it was based on relative pitch.  It's going to take
a whole lot more than having all pianos at A-440 to abolish the "tin ear"
syndrome.

Regards,
Clyde

Joseph Garrett wrote:

> All,
> A comment was made, "I can see no justification for raising the pitch....."
> I will give ONE very strong reason: EAR TRAINING. If some continue to leave
> pianos "where they are", etc, for little Johnny to practice on, we will
> never get rid of the horrible phenomenon of "Tin Ears". Please consider
> this. Music is to be loved, enjoyed and to ease our day to day stresses.
> IMHO any piano that is out of tune or not at proper pitch does none of that.
> Respectfully,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)

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