Dear Cynthia, I understand your reservations but the word chromaticism is often understood merely as denoting the utilisation of pitches not included in a...
I'm surprised that no-one has suggested using disposable nitrile-rubber gloves - those blue things you see healthcare workers wearing, on the news. They can...
- I agree, Simon, I happened to pick it up at the time. Interesting stuff. Richard. ... From: Simon Chadwick To: WireHarp@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
Dear Alasdair, You are correct that it is impractical to re-tune a *single* B string in the course of a tune, which is why some early harps have two B strings....
Dear Cynthia, Thanks for your reply. You seem to approach musicology from a different viewpoint to me. You also seem to approach the definition of words and...
... That was not my intent. The list is a fairly public forum, and I thought it might be useful to others present to see my viewpoint on the subject at hand....
Hi, ... CONSISTANT use of calcium-magnesium supplements< I have found this to be true also. I started taking about 500mg a day each of calcium and magnesium...
Dear Cynthia, Thank you for your warm and kind reply. ... to >others present to see my viewpoint on the subject at ... thoughts >were shared so to be offensive...
Dear Cynthia, Thank you for your warm and kind reply. ... to others present to see my viewpoint on the subject at hand. Did my best to share it. I'm very sorry...
I must say, the recent exchanges between Alasdair and Cynthia have been an absolute model - not to say a marvel - of the way these things ought to be...
... Hear, hear! For those of you (us?) who need some relief from the flame wars to which we are regularly subjected on other lists, check out the following...
Personally, I tend to tune by fourths and fifths, then check tuning with a piece or pieces. "Feaghan Geleash" or "Try If It Is in Tune" is a tune from the...
... Alasdair, As someone who reads but doesn't always respond I have to say I am reading your articles with great glee and learning joyfully. I read and reread...
A key is a fixed pitch, a mode can be played in any key. Robert. ... From: Jacqueline Lynaugh <bluefairystoryteller@...> To: <WireHarp@yahoogroups.com> ...
Hi Bob, I think it's more complicated than that, a key is surely more than just one fixed pitch, as it is a sequence of tones and semitones (like a mode)......
I'd like to add my agreement to this - thanks to both parties, and also to Alasdair for his lucid explanations. The discussion of the difference, or not,...
... Well, you still need to use the tuning key. :-) Even when I'm lazy and use my tuner, which I fear is pretty often, I still go around the circle of fifths...
... First of all, don't read the Grove's article until you already know what it's talking about. It is much too thick as an introduction to the subject. I...
Hello simon. I was trying to give a very generalised answer. I had better steer clear of modes. I shall only get myself into trouble. Right a simple question....
For those of you who remember my little cherrywood bronze-strung harp, Rosamunde, she has a new owner as of today! She's no longer an unplayed, untouched...
Thanks, Cynthia This deserves another wee potential factoid, off topic! I recently was told by an organist that the reason most Victorian fixed-pitch...
... . Right a simple ... Yes. in some of Ann Heymann's arrangements you'll see them represented by a note with a small, open circle above it. I've found three...
Dear Jacqueline, Thanks very much for your interest and encouragement. I'm aware of the activity on the website but I do appreciate encouragement. I offer my...
Thank you, Richard. I hadn't heard that before. What I have heard (this from the organ maker at my church...Flentrop) is that in times past to tune an organ,...
Hi Joan, Glad to hear Rosamunde will be played ! and Meg should get a copy of Cynthia Cathcart's "Pathway" which comes with a CD, and is an excellent wire...
Hello fellow harpies. Pitch in England rose slowly through the 19th century so that orchestras would make a brighter sound. Oddly French pitch didn't. French...
Dear Robert and Simon, I think you've both hit on something important here. Robert is articulating something which I think many people would articulate, ie,...
Dear Cynthia, ... and ... shared by ... right ... sense ... and ... Do you mean that both of us were veering towards taking things too personally or just one...
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