Hi everyone, I would like to better understand the terms 'high pitch' and 'low pitch'. Is there a specific meaning for these terms? For example, when someone...
... These terms have always depended on TIME and PLACE and CONTEXT! However, if you hear or see these terms e.g. on earlyflute, the speaker or writer ALMOST...
Richard M. Wilson
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Mar 3, 2003 4:59 am
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... you for ... identical test ... We might ... the ... conditions, and ... made ... out the ... tube of each ... Hi Rod and All, The tests we have carried out...
Hi Lars, and All, The video files of the air flows in the flute tube are average 80 Mega Bytes in length. They are in avi format, but to large I think for...
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Terry, Perhaps next time try Balsa wood. I once tried the hollow thin walled pithy stems of some type of wild amaranth. It actually made a flute that I...
Thank you Rick! Just the sort of detailed post I was hoping for! Best wishes, Susan Susan Maclagan Winnipeg, Canada ... From: "Richard M. Wilson" <rmw@i...> ...
LP or low pitch is 440... Sid ... From: Susan Maclagan [mailto:flutecoach@...] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:21 AM To: earlyflute@yahoogroups.com ...
... From: Cory Clements To: earlyflute@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:59 AM Subject: Re: [earlyflute] Pine flute Terry, Perhaps next time try...
The adress is : c.soubeyran@... Giuseppe Prosdocimi Novara - Italy...
Prosdocimi, Giuseppe
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Mar 4, 2003 7:08 am
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LOW picht is 440 ??? What ?? Giuseppe Prosdocimi Novara - Italy...
Prosdocimi, Giuseppe
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Mar 4, 2003 7:16 am
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Rick, I agree. I can also feel the bore with my breath. I guess it's the resistance from the bore we feel. Also, as for the vibrating flute body, I have with...
... Here it must be said that the traditional shakuhachi also uses impervious layers of two natural mixtures inside the bore. For generations the undercoat and...
When playing on a Rottenburgh with viola's da gamba and theorbo, (i.e. fretted plucked instruments), what is the best tuning system for them to use, quarter...
that's a funny question! "quarter coma, sixth comma, equal" refers to temperaments for keyboards, or instruments with fixed pitches! This is not your case! ...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
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Mar 4, 2003 7:18 pm
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Hi Laura, and thanks for an interesting question. I note that it refers to the continuo instruments, not the flute, which as Philippe points does not have to...
... The terms are used in England to distinguish flutes made to play at the Old Philharmonic pitch ( A=452 c.p.s) and those made to play at New Philharmonic...
Thanks for your replies, We were tuning to sixth comma, but for some reason they were dividing certain notes in half, like Eb and D#. I guess it sounds...
Hello againn, With regards to the vibration of the wood while playing the flute, I find when playing any of the flutes from my collection and holding the flute...
Ok , "standard" is 440 , I know ! Why do you tell "low" is 440 ?? Giuseppe Prosdocimi...
Prosdocimi, Giuseppe
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Mar 5, 2003 6:41 am
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Dear Ardagh, I can not believe that the vibrations inside a woodwind bore can exert an influence strong enough to make the thick walls of a flute vibrate. As a...
You better read Ardal's book! Temperament is for keyboard and plucked instruments. We wind players can choose to whom and what we will tune. My ear is always...
... I don't think you can talk about the tuning of a baroque flute as anything other than an expression of the design choices made by the original maker. The...
Dear Laura about flute tuning, I like those comments made by our french acoustician Emile Leipp (1980) : "FLUTES ARE NOT INSTRUMENTS WITH FIXED SOUNDS....
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
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Mar 5, 2003 11:32 am
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Dear Laura, Just a couple of practical observations about tuning. Firstly, whatever 'system' you think you're using, if it sounds out of tune the flute player...
