Wives tales ... violin tuning

[Jlmatt at aol.com]

I think the only way a violonist could play in ET is by putting frets on  the 
fingerboard. 
 But that would defeat the purpose of the instrument. Maybe you mean  he is 
tuning his open strings with an electronic tuner, however as he plays  he will 
still play where the pure intervals are, and when he plays in ensemble,  he 
will instinctively adjust the pitches in pure intervals. You call a pure 5th  
crappy but to my ear it really is beautiful. 
And when the professors say "pianos are never in tune" they are right in a  
way, because what we tuners do is find happy compromises for those 88 fix  
pitches to get along together. The beauty of an instrument on which you can  
adjust the pitch as you play is that you can really play in tune, in the moment,  
in the context. For example you will play a C at a certain height in pitch when 
 it's a fundamental, but if it's a 3rd you will certainly put it a lot lower  
instinctively. But if that same C is the leading tone of Db, you will then  
instinctively put it a lot higher. That's expressive intonation. ET is a  
compromise. 
 
Jean-Luc
 
 
In a message dated 6/29/2008 8:02:30 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
eve_ane at hotmail.co.uk writes:

Fortuntely atleast one violinist i heard so far tunes in ET and not  that 
crappy  pure 5ths... I thought my significant other to tune his  violin in ET, 
after a year of struggle he keeps thanking me.. says the sound  vinally stopped 
"slicing" his ears and sounds in warm harmony... From  associating with 
them... violinists not only tend to think strangely bout  their own instruments.. 
but worse. rat down on pianos... I was told by him  that while he was studying, 
his professors always said "pianos are never in  tune"... and some worse 
things... 

Sorry to change the subject, i  thought id mention ET.

Alicia

> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008  15:56:17 +0100
> From: ricb at pianostemmer.no
> To:  pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Wives tales ...
> 
> "Sadly,  it's often pianists themselves."
> 
> Violinists and Bureaucratic  Cultural Pamps are also very high on that list.
> 
> RicB
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