SV: HT Experience

[Ola Andersson]

> Dear List,
> 
> Ric Moody has urged me to post this to the List--..........................

> Whaddaya think?  Bounced that ball right back out into the middle of the 
> court!
> 
I agree

I think a symfoni orchestra is stribing for playing perfectly pure, but I  don't think they know what they are doing, 
They do it by ear. I beleave the French Horn players is the most educated about this doing all the modulations of Wagner without sounding out of tune. String players can hide in the group and use one tenth of a second to find the right pitch together with alot vibrato.

Do we have a French Horn player on the list that can give a comment. I've heard French Horn players disguess about 
"this note is a major third and this one is a fith" and then they play them pure and not in ET. When a composer (de)compose the notes are stuck on a piano or computer but when a French Horn player plays he might change the intonation in a modulation even if he plays the same note. One of my first big experience with piano tuning was I can play chords very low in the bass  if I tune the chord pure (No vibrato), That is what a French Horn section do.

Nowadays we can hear people singing perfectly in ET. You sometimes can hear this streched vibrating fourth in a country ballad. Then we know the singers have been singing thrue a computer who have "tuned" the voices. 
    Paul Simon don't do that. 



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Ola Andersson
Bergen Norway