Bredonborough On this day one
09.33
Bredonborough.
On this day, one year ago, my
Uncle Bill (
Alfie Fripp POW dies) flew from this world.
Today, hailstones are falling. Britain has multiple flood warnings and continuing rain, mainly in the West Country.
Morning reading…
… and to new reading, a Christmas present…
Academic discussions, and most other commentary on music, musicians and performance, usually fail to fully consider the effects of two primary contributory elements: the audience and the industry. There are other elements to consider when fully addressing The Act Of Music, but these two are fundamental to a consideration of the music system…
Music
Audience Industry
Musician
09.47 On Facebook: from my respected friend Walter Goodwin…
Walter Goodwin December 24, 2013
As you considered the parameters for a different tuning for the guitar did you investigate frequency as "reported" in the story below? What are your thoughts/feelings on A440 hz vs A432 hz vs A420 hz?
/heres-why-you-should-convert-your-music-to-432hz/The (fairly) recent
history of pitch shows quite a variation, with Handel and Mozart favouring
422-433 (opens PDF) The twentieth-century choice of A=440 Hz was a compromise between two important traditions: the pitch level favoured by the composers of eighteenth-century music that remains important to the concert repertoire, and the more brilliant pitch levels introduced by the makers of nineteenth-century wind- instruments. Meanwhile, the revival in recent decades of period instruments tuned to one or the other historic pitch has prompted a new awareness of pitch as stylistically contingent rather than absolute.
The Cymatics experiment I find persuasive and would be interested to know the experiences of those with perfect pitch, assuming their sense of pitch has not been compromised by upbringing and “education” (
online tuning fork /
Absolute pitch). Were Walter’s question to be: Do you find the song of the world to be a little sharp, a little tight and overwrought? The answer would be: Yes!
13.24 A visit to collect WilyFred from the Rabbit Dentist in Evesham I…
II...
… where WillyFred needed an overnight stay. Not WillyFred’s favourite lodgings, not our fave choice of accommodation for him either.
Home to lunch.
17.05 An afternoon of e-fury. Re-engaging with a swelling inbox.
19.55 A visit by our local pal, formerly of the haunted house across the Market Square, popping into to collect a present for his daughter and one for local pal and his Wife.
To a little practising.
Now, gentling time. WillyFred needs loving attention, and so does my Wife.
