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RE: a tuner question

Author: Jim
Date: 2001-04-15 04:43

Daniel,

An accompanied choir pulls its pitches from the accompianment (if an instrument is not doubling the part.) An acapella choir is usually given starting pitch(s) from an instrument or a pitch pipe. Often this is done quietly and discretly so as not to be noticed from the audience. Singing acapella is very difficult, and oft times the choir can deviate from the written key by as much as a minor third by the end of the work (usually on the flat side.) Usually the director will give a signal that the choir is slipping down to make a correction. (The director I most often sing for gestures upward with his left thumb.)

From years of singing and tuning a clarinet I can reliably sing A (concert) (440) but I don't trust myself to tune to it, I formerly used an A tuning fork, but now use a tuner. (I use the fork to confirm the accuracy of the tuner though.) My teacher in college had an A bar mounted on the studio wall and required me to ring it by sympathetic vibration to confirm that I was in tune.

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