Note ID - & Tunelab

[PAT A RALPH]

Being an organ technician, C0 to G#0 are below the piano range, the lowest
note on the piano is A0.

Answer your question?

Ken Gerler

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Note ID - & Tunelab


> This has been bugging me for a while, and since Patricia asked about the
> scale compass limits on that Wurlitzer, this seems about as bad a time as
any.
>
> Doing my recent unison pitch measurements in Tunelab, I ran into this ---
>
> The note designations in Tunelab are from A-0, to B-0, then from C-1 to
> C-8. Ok, being a recovering programmer, I can easily enough accept the
> concept of zero offset from an address, but the first instance of C by
this
> system would have to be C-0, not C-1, followed by C#-0 - G#-0, which don't
> even exist in the current setup. With an international standard of pitch
> defined and centered on A, where in the heck does this come from? Maybe
> it's an archaic music thing, but I'm not a musician, I'm a mechanic. In my
> world, it's A-0 - G#-0, followed by A-1, etc., with C-7 being the top end,
> marching along in a rational order, unencumbered by tradition and history.
>
> Robert, what are the chances that you can recompile me a version of
Tunelab
> with the first instance of any given note from A to G# designated "0", and
> progressing upward in a similar fashion from there so a poor old dim
hammer
> swinger can have some hope of keeping track of what he's doing? Even if it
> takes adding another indexed array for the display, it's only about
fifteen
> minutes work, and it would sure make it easier on my sense of conceptual
> order. Then again, if the note designations are in an ascii array already,
> I can edit them manually. I'll have to look and see.
>
> In any/either case, why is it set up this way, and why hasn't anyone
> mentioned it to date? Am I the only spook in the bunch? <G>
>
> Ron N