---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 1/11/02 12:48:07 AM !!!First Boot!!!, joegarrett@earthlink.net writes: > 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) > Joe Music can be loved at any pitch. Consider that Mozart, Bach, and most of the great composers, probably didn't have a piano or organ tuned to A440. Yet, they somehow managed to produce some pretty fantastic music. As far as ear training is concerned, there is no reason for a piano to be at A440. Ear training is not identifying which note is which on the piano. Ear training is the ability to sing and hear intervals. Once a pitch is given, ear training teaches how to sing another pitch. So it doesn't make any difference where that pitch is, in reference to a piano, even it the piano is out of tune. Unless one has perfect pitch, very few people are going to know the difference. I am sure, like most of us, I have sung many a hymns a step or two higher or lower, and never knew it. And if I did, it didn't bother me, or any one else in choir. All we had to know was the starting note, and off we went. Now I am not advocating we tune all pianos at what ever pitch we find it. But they don't need to be there for ear training. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c3/b7/a2/13/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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