Not just Teutonic, it's practised the (music) world over. The Tuning fork generates a tone to give them (the Choir) a reference for the key centre I'd imagine. Orchestra's have a 'scrape' and tune up before launch at the beginning of a gig. Sounds like a bag of kittens being boiled!
You can now buy very accurate Electronic Tuning devices for instruments now, some work by picking up mechanical vibration, others by direct input from a coil on an electric guitar or bass and other's use an in-built microphone like this...
Well done on going to the live gig's BTW, it's good to actually experience these sounds 1st hand innit.
when did you last see anyone in the LSO or royal phil using one of them there gizmos..Pah!
real musos do it with their ears....just to prove that some ears are better than others they use that scratching/scrape so's those with bad ears can copy those with good...least thats my theory....
ackshirley I'm fulla poo...here's mine
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ed wrote:
when did you last see anyone in the LSO or royal phil using one of them there gizmos..Pah!
Nah, I've never seen the LSO or any other 'O' for that matter using a digi tuner! I've only seen them scrape n scatch tune. I read somewhere that over the years the ref pitch 'A' has increased in sharpness up to our current A = 440Hz spec. Dunno if thats fo' real?
I was trying to give our Phil an idea of how other muso's tune up in the real world. I use a Korg Chromatic tuner ran off a volume pedal so i can mute the on-stage sound and tune to my hearts (and ears) content.
That QT tuner is pants Ed Try tuning a 6 string bass with that.....BEADGC......
If anybody remembers Jamboree bags that Quik Tune fingie belongs in one
Haha and slap me down with a stick of wet celery
I would have liked to have heard that choir, more out of curiosity than anything else.
There is a certain choral style I like but I don't know what it is. It's kind of (searches hard for descriptive words) ethereal; heavenly; medieval; spooky.
I do know White Zombie sampled just such a choir on an album of theirs from the year 2000 but other than that I have not a clue.
Dave the bass wrote:
That QT tuner is pants Ed Try tuning a 6 string bass with that.....BEADGC......
DTB
snigger......yoof of today, no barins at all......it tunes in octaves, so bottom B would light up the top B, sept its a bit more sensitive....have had to use it on Bella a couple of times, but she only varies a couple of cents between seasons, indoors or out etc etc.....
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Dave the bass wrote:
That QT tuner is pants Ed Try tuning a 6 string bass with that.....BEADGC......
DTB
snigger......yoof of today, no barins at all......it tunes in octaves, so bottom B would light up the top B, sept its a bit more sensitive....have had to use it on Bella a couple of times, but she only varies a couple of cents between seasons, indoors or out etc etc.....
Pfffttttt...... and my high 'C'???...... can't see no 'C' on the Crap-time.....
DTB
PS. Do ya know what scale length is Bella Ed off hand? I saw Il Dragonara's actual 3 string Bass a while back, it was gy-normous!
Nah, I've never seen the LSO or any other 'O' for that matter using a digi tuner! I've only seen them scrape n scatch tune. I read somewhere that over the years the ref pitch 'A' has increased in sharpness up to our current A = 440Hz spec. Dunno if thats fo' real?
