Tag: PITCH AND TUNING
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Stretch Tuning
– when Tuning a Piano, Low Strings are Tuned slightly Lower and High Strings are Tuned slightly Higher – i.e. if you Move away from the Middle C, the Higher you go the Register Cents will Increase a little (+1, +2, +3 etc.) and Viceversa, the Lower you go the Register Cents will Decrease a…
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Timbre
– Timbre is also Called Tone Colour – Real World Instruments have a Fundamental Frequency that Determines the Musical “Pitch” Plus other Harmonic Frequencies that Determine the “Timbre” – the Timbre is what Makes One Voice or Instrument Sound Different from another – Timbre is Spectra (Tonal Quality = Sound Spectrum, Partials) & Envelope (Shape…
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Tuning (Music)
General – A Pitch is based on the Vibration of any Sound per Second and is written in Hertz as Frequency (for Example C3 at 261.626 Hertz) – Improving the Intonation is Essential to Keep your Instrument in Tune or Tune it to Another Instrument, i.e. Tuning as Closely as Possible to a Reference Pitch…
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Tuning Temperaments
General – 15th to 17th there was a Lot of “Mean Tone” Tuning Used – but in the 17th (1680) Werckmeister Developed “Well Temperated” Tunings – Especially the 18th and 19th Centuries Used “Well Temperated” – 20th Century Started to Tune to “Equal Temperated” Mainly for Whole Tone Scaled Compositions and Atonal Music – “Equal…