No I only use one tuning fork. I'm sure a piano tuner doesn't carry 88 of them around!

Does anyone still use a tuning fork like I do? It doesn't seem to go sticky with age, and you can even stir your tea with it.

Following from what merlyn mentioned above though, I do wonder if tuning forks are considered the gold standard in accuracy. I have no means of checking.

That's because one of the major innovations of the Classical period (Haydn, Mozart etc) was sonata form. This depends heavily on key relationships, and whilst developed further, became a mainstay of composers through the Classic as well as ensuing Romantic period and beyond. Sonata form underpins ...

Beaming implies no change to the way music is interpreted. It is simply an option to keep the music tidier and more readable in certain circumstances.

In vocal music notes tend to be beamed if sung to the same word or syllable.

Having the high E at the top is a convention. It could be the other way. But ... we do use 'higher' and 'lower' for pitch. Maybe some languages use 'tighter' and 'looser'. I have no idea. Given that a more trebly pitch is called 'higher', the convention makes sense. Tab is often seen next to ...

Having the high E at the top is a convention. It could be the other way. But ... we do use 'higher' and 'lower' for pitch. Maybe some languages use 'tighter' and 'looser'. I have no idea. Given that a more trebly pitch is called 'higher', the convention makes sense. Tab is often seen next to ...

merlyn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:27 pm
I don't know if this would be practical, but you could try to get the guy to walk around the room and play in time with him.

That's a great idea - thanks. Just as well he doesn't pay the piano!

I knew a percussion teacher whose students complained that they had no sense of rhythm. The percussion teacher's idea was that everyone has a sense of rhythm, and the problem is elsewhere. "I've got no sense of rhythm". "Of course you do. Can you breathe?" "Yes." "Can you walk?" "Yes." "Well, you ...

I tried this and the pitches went down - but there is little explanation, and I'm not sure how I can 'change' my listening in some way to get a different result. Any ideas? Did my longer post above give no suggestions? It worked for me... That's why I posted about it. @adrian_k, thanks, I'd ...

... EDIT: I failed to pick intervals from the sound of a piano at school (the keyboard was not visible to the class), because I heard them as combined timbre, rooted on one pitch. I really could not detect them as two notes! I had to learn how to do that later in life. ... That sounds like ...

It's a secondary dominant, but that doesn't make it Lydian

It's the locking mechanism that allows you to adjust the headband to suit your head. Each side can be adjusted, and then the position is locked into place by the plastic thingy when you give it a quarter turn. The plastic thingy is the bit that breaks - one either side.

Mine broke too in exactly the same way after very limited use. The plastic bracket or whatever you call it, does seem to be a weak link. A shame because they sound really nice.

The Wombles also made good use of the iv minor chord too in their seminal Wombling Merry Christmas. Dated 1974, it is quite a bit earlier than Mariah Carey, though I don't think the Wombles can claim quite such a glittering career.

OK sure, yes I've heard of that concept, but can something be in a key if it never uses the corresponding chord? I guess I could be sure to use a C minor in a C section. If that chord never appears at all then it can't really be in that key. However there is plenty of music where the tonic chord s ...

If you’re supposed to use one mode throughout the exercise, then that’s not possible. I'm a little rusty but I think second species counterpoint is pretty basic and should be confined to diatonic progressions. In this case I think it is the cf that is essentially 'wrong' and hence causing problems. ...

I can't see anything wrong either, though I would comment that this is a particularly uninspiring cf.

If the software is taking account of modality then the Gflat is out of place regardless of what you have done.

Is it just me, but I can't see the images if I click on them, and they are way too small otherwise.

Love a bit of counterpoint me!

Three note triads are simpler (though even here as Sam says it is possible to have an alternative view) but the original chord was four notes, and it is here that more ambiguity can creep in.

As already stated context is everything.

You are assuming this is a IV chord but it may actually be in inverted I chord at heart with an added 4th.
Note combinations can usually be interpreted in several ways depending on the surrounding music

I bought a tenor uke too recently though my natural habitat is keyboards. It has definitely made me think differently too as you have to learn new patterns. The other joy of the ukulele is discovering how much you can actually do with such a small instrument and so few strings. The four strings span ...

I have a Scan 3xS laptop, and would recommend. However I can't seem to find any audio 3Xs laptops on their site now. Does anyone know what has happened?

I'm guessing the BBC Desert Island Discs has been passing you by....ever since 1942.

When you say lots of ways to harmonize. Do you mean different inversions? Or is this a can of worms a whole book could be written about. You can harmonise a melody in lots of different ways. Using different inversions is just re-voicing the same chord. The root position, 1st and 2nd inversions are ...