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RE: Fixed my check engine light! Saved money and now have a tool and new skills!
I am going to pass this one to my husband as he will find it very interesting. If it looks like an answer from me you will be able to tell if it is written in a different stye. He started singing with a group, then taking sax lessons and then voice lessons recently and I think he will find this very interesting.
Later...
bchick's husband here:
Tuning instruments has been an "art" for probably thousands of years. Ever since Phythagoras' theory of fifths, different muscians and composers have been experimenting with slighty different tuning arrangements. The current concert A = 440 Hz derives from a British standard set in 1939. My sax is manufacturered to harmonize with instruments tuned to A = 440 Hz and it is impractical to try change that pitch (although adjusting the fit of the mouthpiece to the neck can "flat" my pitch).
It is my understanding that the pitch of A has varied in the range of 400 - 460 Hz since 1880. (see https://ask.audio/articles/music-theory-432-hz-tuning-separating-fact-from-fiction)... rising in that range to accomodate a higher, brighter concert sound (and steel, rather than wood, ribbed pianos). IMO, the importance of any consistent tuning system (whether A = 432 Hz or 440 Hz) is that various instruments can sound in harmony when playing together.
Harmonies are the result of relative pitch ratios, not the base or concert pitch... so in theory the same harmonies are available regardless of the base pitch.
Cool thanks! :)
Makes sense that instruments might be constructed specifically for a particular tuning frequency, I hadn't considered that.
I just convinced my wife to join, perhaps you might convince him to as well? I just shared an "introducing my wife" post, but she'll write her own more comprehensive one. :)
I saw that and immediately followed her so I should see it when she makes it.
P may join someday when he has time but since he has incorporated sax lessons and daily practice and voice lessons with practice every day into his already busy schedule, plus gardening and Bible study and more. I doubt he will take the time. (He is the out going one in this relationship, you see.)
I send him good posts I think he will be interested in, like yours. And we talk about it.
Steemit is time consuming at first while you learn what is here and I think it might be the last straw.
Nice, good luck to him! Yes, I agree about the time consumption. :) And I still have a ton to learn as well! I think I'll read the whitepaper today. Blessings!
Please write a two sentence synopsis when you have grasped the contents. (oh, and send them to me)
HaHA!
Here ya go! "Steemit good. Steemit earn."
(Yeah I've got the song "Code Monkey" on my brain... :) )
Outstanding interpretation. Cliff notes version.
Much better than reading it myself.
Thanks.