... Precisely this is something I had already thought of, and one of the things that makes me believe I haven't got perfect pitch. I cannot tell an A-440 from...
I am a perhaps a doubter... A single F horn is approximately 12 feet (or closer to 12 feet 3 inches as someone attributed to Morley-Pegge), and a single...
Colombo: I've known people who can tell pitches from electrical items and engines. I had a music therapy professor who could and a guy I tutored once could do...
In a message dated 3/1/2006 4:26:55 AM Central Standard Time, starter@... writes: I agree that people have (and do) ask "How long is all the tubing?"...
Interesting. My roommate, who is from Japan where A-442 is standard, said that playing in A-440 is fairly difficult for her because everything sounds flat. I ...
Colombo, I believe harps are in the key of C. I had 6 weeks lessons hundreds of years ago. Some large concert bands have harps. Many orchestras have...
Cris, I would venture to guess that your friend's parents did have perfect pitch but never developed the gift. Nancy ... standard, said that ... sounds flat. I...
Studies support that perfect pitch seems to be a function of perfect memory, not a biological pre-disposition. A few quick examples: 1. There is nothing...
My son, the 14 year old horn player, has perfect pitch. He will often identify "noises" (the whine the dryer makes, the refrigerator hum) by their pitch. I...
Since this is the year of W. A. Mozart I need to find a replacement for the piano part for the basic Concert Rondo. My old Sansone part needs to retire. I...
All this talk of perfect pitch compells me to tell the story of one of my brass quintets whose trombonist has perfect pitch. He claims that he could never play...
One specific problem followed by a general question: I have been using my Yamaha 668 since 1993. Over the past three months I've developed a problem with my...
As one who plays natural horns and the egalitarian, right-handed valve horn, I find transposing to be easier done with a lead pencil, while the stand partner...
Eric, I own the Breitkopf edition of Concert Rondo. Would you like me to mail you the piano part? Please let me know offlist so I can do that for you. I will...
Harps are indeed a non-transposing instrument (C). They tune the strings in Cb, however. Chris Bradshaw nancymomkids <nancymomkids@...> wrote: Colombo, I...
... Harp pedals have three positions: sharp, natural and flat. The flat position leaves the string at its full length, which is best for tuning. -- Dan...
... Without a shred of scientific evidence to back it up, I have always concluded that perfect pitch is simply the auditory analogue of color identification. ...
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Most evidence suggests absolute pitch is NOT genetic. Our basilar membrane is what distinguishes different frequencies. Different frequency ranges actually...
Six weeks of harp was not enough time to learn all about tuning. I did enjoy my teacher's playing a Salzado piece with accompaniment of thumping on the harp's...
I glanced through this link and will read it more thoroughly later. Who am I to go against the theory of such learned people. But to say that perfect pitch is...
This is what I remember from orchestration class. A harp doesn't have Bb, Ab, and so on, just ABCDEFG. So the A string also plays A# and Ab, when the pedal...
Much better, and shorter explanation than the one i just gave. Oops! Chris ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of...
The amount of text being sent out is easily twice as long as it needs to be due to too many listers attaching too many previous posts on the subject. Simply...
In a message dated 3/1/2006 11:58:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, nancymomkids@... writes: Six weeks of harp was not enough time to learn all about tuning. ...
... I take your point Larry but it isn't sufficient. Because there are so many members, what with normal 'thread drift', it really is helpful if people quote,...
More info from the book "The Horn" by Robin Gregory. The effective or acoustical length of the F horn is about 154 inch. The length of the F horn is about 147...
If I'm not mistaken harps have 6 pedals. Each pedal has three slots that it can be slid into. I don't remember because it was in the 60s when I had lessons....
