Ed: If you play G1 (+/- 49 Hz) and D2 (+/- 73.4 Hz) the difference is roughly G1 (24.4 Hz). As others have said organists use it some. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/15/2003 at 5:18 PM A440A@aol.com wrote: >Greetings, > Here is a new one on me, it comes from the piano-L list: > >>>Jonathan Gonder performed the Bach-Busoni Chaconne in d >minor. In one of the passages, near the end of the piece, the very lowest >notes of the piano were heard fortissimo in a descending line which went >beyond the lowest A of the piano to a G. > >Jon said how this tone was produced, I can't remember what he said >other than that he struck two notes, a fourth apart, and that in doing so, >the low G was produced. He said that organists do this to compensate when >they do not have pipes which go low enough. > >Can anyone explain this to me? << > > >Ideas, anyone? > >Ed Foote RPT >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/ >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <A >HREF="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.htm l"> >MP3.com: Six Degrees of Tonality</A> >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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