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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: It didn't sound that precise to me posted by David Smith on November 12, 2011 at 14:35:21:
What I was trying to suggest is that the fifths between D and A were pure and not tempered; that all the intervals were tuned to work without beating in the home key of the piece, so he didn't care what a remote key that the piece did not modulate into would sound like, because he didn't have to play it.
So, I am assuming everyone knows the difference between modern piano "equal" temperament, where the "Pythagorean Comma" fifth/octave error gets distributed evenly among all 12 half-steps, and earlier just or mean-tone tuning regimens.
Another poster has said that this clip is from a documentary. That makes me think that he would tune the glasses to sound best in the one key he had to play in. But of course, there are lots of glasses, and as you say, the pitch could have been changing as the water evaporated.
The tuning just sounded less compromised than most organ versions I have heard.
I know I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about tuning and temperaments...
JM
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Follow Ups
- Um, dunno if we are speaking the same language... - John Marks 15:05:02 11/12/11 (2)
- RE: Um, dunno if we are speaking the same language... - rbolaw 13:53:40 11/13/11 (0)
- No we are taking about the same thing. nt - David Smith 15:31:28 11/12/11 (0)
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