Explaining Pitch vs Tone

[Farrell]

Well, not with this lady. She simply focused on "you changed something". To her it seemed, high meant brassy. Good heavens, I even tried to sing (YIKES!) some stuff and play notes trying to talk about higher and lower pitch. It was a no go. I think for a tough-to-get-through-to client like this one, something like Wim's idea is required.

Thanks for the thought though.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: RE: Explaining Pitch vs Tone


> 
> Any good ideas on how to explain tone and pitch??? Thanks. 
> 
> Terry Farrell 
>
> Tone is color. Pitch is size. The difference between a blue dress in a
> size 5 and a red dress in a size 5 is the color. The difference between
> a blue dress in size 5 an a blue dress in size 10 is one fits, the other
> doesn't.   
> 
> Wim 
> 
> 
> 
>             I like high-low for pitch and bright- dull for tone.
> Somewhat simplistic especially for tone, but it clears up the confusion
> between the two. 
> 
>             Tom Driscoll
> 
>