1 lil problem.... most people cant stretch out their middle fingers enough to play an octave clean on a violin... which is why they always sound weird.... 2nd...tuning ET makes villin alot more comfortable to play, and consequently, more pleasure for the player... its not all about the sounds its also about comfort of performer... and John was stuggling alot, because siome intervalls were simply painful to play. not only aurally (pure fifths makes intervalls sounds disastrous) but also physically... i faced same problem... and final.. he playes in Settle orchestra, tuning in ET he played his own arrangemenbt of bachs prelude from the cello suite no1... and leader of orchestra wasent complaining, on the contrary she asked what he has done with his fingering or tuning, because it sounds in harmony... i think i speak for everyone who heard that day, that ET is better than pure 5ths for violin in most cases, there a piece calls for alot of fingering, and intevalls... on the other side if u take a piece thats entirely played on open strings... knock urself outtuning pure :-) in that case u can tune a piano chromatically, and leave every at its "theoretical" frequency... just avoid intervalls, octaves, and using 2 hands... makes sence? Alicia > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:02:12 +0100> From: ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Wives tales ... violin tuning> > "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 till 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"> > > Any instrumentalist who has the ability to adjust pitch slightly as on a > fretless string board has the choice to play <<in tune>> with other > fixed pitch instrumentalists or drive their own course. In the case of a > violinist a perfect 5th that perhaps sounds wonderful isolated can sound > very bad indeed if played against an appropriately clashing interval on > a piano--- remembering that violinists classically play well sharp of a > piano to begin with.> > The most poignant example I have of this is a recent concert with two > world class players... Kathryn Stott and Truls Mørk. From time to time > the clash between the cellists play and the piano made the piano sound > simply out of tune... and nothing to do with unisons. Yet when the same > instrument played solo passages seconds later the thing sounded wonderful.> > Seems to me there is no inherent purpose of the viol family instrument > to play perfect intervals of any sort. Rather it is simply to make > beautiful music...which of course includes the ability to blend in --- > pitch wise also --- with any/all accompanying instruments as best is > possible.> > Cheers> RicB> > _________________________________________________________________ Great deals on almost anything at eBay.co.uk. Search, bid, find and win on eBay today! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000004ukm/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080629/08256c45/attachment-0001.html
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