You know if we are professionals doing a job for a public performance we should use whatever tools are necessary. If the contract calls for ¼ tone difference there are very accurate tools to accomplish this. Why would one guess about the note being "about" ¼ step down? Has our ego about never-using-an-ETD gotten that out of control? If you don't have an ETD, borrow one. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Skolnik Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:42 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Corigliano Z - Of course I meant A flat. I hope you didn't spend too long trying to figure that one out, or the nature of my particular malady. Does that make the method any clearer? I don't know if I could do it with a fork. You could set a quick mini-temp (A4 - A3; F3 - A3; A3 - C#4 contig. 3rd; C#4 - G#3;) Then, mute one of the three strings of A3, lower another to where the quality of the interval between A flat - A1/4 flat is the same as A1/4 flat and A. Keep checking the tuning of your constant A-220 against A-440 above. Borrowing an ETD is good too. When's the performance? David S At 10:41 AM 7/29/2010, you wrote: David, Hmm, don't think I understand this method. Do you mean A flat? I have a 415 fork somewhere, I think I could get the target A to sound about the same when played with either the 415 or 440 fork. Or borrow someone's ETD. how's your summer going? -Z On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM, David Skolnik < davidskolnik at optonline.net<mailto:davidskolnik at optonline.net>> wrote: Zeno, You could ask him. Otherwise, I guess I should assume that you don't have any electronic pitch source, with which you could simply recalibrate at 50 cents flat and tune as more or less normal. So, could you tune down one string of A440 to make the interval between B flat and that string sound the same as between that string and A? That's too simple, there must be something wrong with that. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 09:03 AM 7/29/2010, you wrote: Anyone here ever tune for two-piano music by Corigliano, involving tuning one piano down 1/4 step? Any advice? Thanks, Zeno Wood Brooklyn College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100729/1469806e/attachment.htm>
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