Klarinet Archive - Posting 000302.txt from 2000/08

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] My memory /Tony Pay`s Weber
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:27:59 -0400

<><> Mark wrote:

<major snip> It doesn't explain all the local variances or why people
tuned so wildly different.

According to Benade, clock chimes do not vibrate with the same
family of vibrational recipes as musical instruments do. Hence if a
group of people is asked to match the pitch of a particular clock chime
against one of the keys on a piano, the people will divide themselves
into two groups, one group claiming (in Benade's example) 180 cps, and
the other group claiming 530 cps.
Benade goes on to examine the causes for this. It turns out that
there are solid reasons why people separate themselves into only two
groups rather than four or five -- even though there are five partials
in most clock chimes -- but my thought is simply that different people
'hear' the same sound in different ways. This is the same as saying
that they respond more strongly to a particular tuning and they simply
"like it better."
I've heard the same "It's not practical to change the church organ"
explanation tat Mark cited, but I've heard it applied to church bells
instead -- including the issue that church music has religious
significance and therefore is more liable to be treated as an ultimate
standard.

-Bill

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