1st partial

[Isaac OLEG]

Hey, I doubt that the little pocket tuners even hear these low
pitches, they usually don't read frequencies under A2 (or more).

But they do as if they where while hearing one or two octaves higher I
guess.

I.O.


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]De
> la part de Ron
> Koval
> Envoyé : vendredi 1 novembre 2002 04:40
> À : caut@ptg.org
> Objet : 1st partial
>
>
>
> Oh, oh, don't mix-up piano theory and wind instrument theory!
>
> <snip>
> . I once
> spent considerable time explaining to our bassoon professor
> why the bass
> on his piano didn't match his little electronic tuner. All
> my notes were
> flat. Fancy that! He had been trying to match his tuner
> when playing his
> bassoon - first partials, that is - and even teaching his
> students the
> same malarky.
> <snip>
>
> The big "I" word, inharmonicity describes the behavior of
> piano, and other
> non-driven strings.  Driven systems, display almost no
> inharmonicity, so
> what the prof was doing actually will work.  It's a common
> problem with band
> room pianos, because they plink out the note, expecting to
> tune the tubas,
> and then can't figure why the chord won't come out right.
> Luckily, the wind
> players, when good enough, adjust to make the sound come
> out as expected.
> Heck, it's tough enough getting piano techs to understand
> inharmonicity, why
> should it be easy to get wind players to "get it" right away?
>
> Ron Koval
> (former bassoonist)
>
>
>
>
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