On 2/13/07, Billy Zoom <billyzoom@billyzoom.com> wrote:
> On a 176 key piano maybe. Otherwise, it depends on what key you're in.
Hey Billy,
Fill me in here. I'm just an amateur musician. Here is my reasoning.
I use a chromatic tuner on my pedal steel E9th neck and use what is
called "equal tempered" tuning. As you prolly know I can get the E
major chord three ways on that neck with G# as the third. I tune the
G# ever so slightly flat so that it "sounds" like the standard E triad
the ear expects. As a result an A flat on any other string is ever so
slightly sharp from my G# so they are not "quite" the same note using
meoldic runs up and down the scale. This is a tuning method I learned
from Buddy Emmons and JD Manis books. Where am I going wrong? Maybe
this is peculiar to the pedal steel?? No way I know of to do this
with my standard guitar or my 5 string banjo...
See how much fun this 59-61 horn stuff can be!! ;-)
Cheers!!
Jim - in the market for an NOS horn
> > Going downscale notes are flat, upscale notes are sharp. Thus from
> > your description that would be an A flat. Believe it or not, A flat
> > and G sharp are NOT the same note in a true tone scale. There is a
> > very tiny difference. People with perfect pitch can actually tell the
> > difference! Yeah. You really wanted to know that stuff didn't
> > you.... Yup.
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