Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2004/09

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Stretch octaves
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:45:51 -0400

On 4 Sep, "David Renaud" <manonrivet@-----.ca> wrote:

> Another little anomaly of interest.
>
> The pitch Hz I quoted are theoretical, with no stretch at all.

[snip]

I think that the notion of 'stretch' octaves on the piano isn't particularly
well understood, in general. I remember misexplaining it here -- though I
did correct myself later:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2000/08/000543.txt

Would you, Dave, be willing to make a post explaining why stretch octaves are
necessary on the piano, and how we need to understand them in order to play
acceptably in tune ourselves?

A part of that might be to explain to me why I'm perhaps wrong to have
assumed that modern pianos need *more* stretch. I'd always assumed that
higher tensions need more correction, and that we're less 'stretched' in
another sense on period instruments.

No?

Cheers,

Tony
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