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http://hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/tuning-seminar.pdfOn a recent thread there's a question about how music affects our minds . . . but I ask rhetorically "What is music?"
It's a collection of vibrations which are either together, as multiples and as one sound, or not together, so giving contrasts of certainty against uncertainty, solid vs liquid, secure vs insecure - and in that we start to see contrasts which move towards a psychological level.
But much of this is lost in modern tuning of music but known to and exploited by classical composers.
"Chromatic", as in the "Chromatic scale", is a word the meaning of which is lost on the Wikipedia page and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqS_IjKo-d8 explains.
More than this, historic concepts of tuning can improve the sound of the instrument, so the seminar on 6th May will be bringing top musicians together, music lovers and piano tuners and technicians.
People are tiring of the black shiny instrument with a shimmering sound which doesn't convey emotion and which can be played mechanically and percussively as mere entertainment, and as a result interest in classical music is in sad decline, particularly in education.
Revisiting the foundations of the sound that makes music can open new perspectives and we look forward potentially to sharing them.
Best wishes
David P
Edits: 04/09/19Follow Ups:
Maybe they should try Percussive Maintenance
In research as in life one is far more likely to find what one looks for than what one neglects. -The Modern Researcher, Barzun and Graff
;-) and :-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
The presenter on the utube video you linked to even says so himself (at least about some intervals) even as he proudly proclaims the virtues of these various unequally tempered scales! Somehow, it all seems very British! (Except for the fact that this fetish for old tuning systems has become entrenched, along with other godawful "historically informed" mannerisms. in every music department the world over.)
In any case, we've solved the problem of tuning and staying on pitch these days with Autotune! ;-)
Oh if you think that's nasty try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrIWR3s84Q
But the whole point is contrast with the nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV0bkcSr_Kg becomes really interesting as an x-ray to the music.
But these are not the tunings which can be used for universal use.
The seminar is about ones which can.
Best wishes
David P
. . . to rain on your parade! ;-)
Seriously, best of luck with it!
Ha! It rains quite a lot from time to time in England so we get used to making the best of it. Wouldn't life be boring if skies were always grey and never rained, and the sun never shone.
And that's the effect that modern tuning has given to our music. And thus the seminar on 6th May
http://hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/tuningseminar.jpg
Best wishes
David P
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