Re: [tuning] Well-Tuned MP3 files demo (GetBack)

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

Lovely violin playing and interesting theory, though your vibrato would make

> it hard to defend (or disprove) your statement that "All intervals are
> JUST." Certainly I didn't hear any 81/40 octaves that disturbed me like the
> one in the Beatles example.
>

Sorry the first half of the mail half jumped away by itself.

Get Back is my favorite because the A is TWO commas sharp, whereas G and E
are the intonations of the violin.(Almost) all the other pieces, especially the
Jazz
pieces, have all the A's equal to 440 Hz. And interestingly enough nearly all
the
other notes are very sharp, the sharpest notes are between 21 to 47 cents on
the ten pieces I arbitarily worked on.

I protest when people say vibrato alters or cannot define an intonation. For
my own curiosity, the whole violin concerto, 24 minutes long have been made
a very long tuned midi file, timed to my own playing. I am satisfied that (apart

from instances out of my control), the whole thing is in tune like I intend.

When a violinist or singer play/sing, we do it to produce an intonation how
it is understood or interpreted in our mind. When the listener listens, he
interprets one single intonation however big a vibrato or glissando. One
violin teacher did a very good analogy comparing a vibrato to a hand-
clapping. It is the moment when the hands come together that counts.
It is like hearing your mummy's voice in a noisy crowd of people. You
select what you want to hear. Therefore, I do not trust spectrometers a
lot. Usually Beatles only "arrives" only for a very very brief instance at
the intended intonation even on a very long note.

Linus.