Is he a wunderkind or what???

wljmrbill

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If not has excellent memory..some I hear but not all for sure. I do not have perfect pitch but relative pitch.
 
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Krummhorn

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I used to be the accompanist for a Soprano who had perfect pitch. I never needed to give her the starting pitch for any solo - she would nail the proper note every time without fail. One is born with perfect pitch - I don't think it can be learned.

I have 'relative' pitch ... meaning I can identify any given note when it is played.
 

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Even at A=415?..........

Well that is Baroque tuning so an A played will sound similar to A flat ... even I would be fooled by that.

As to the soprano I accompanied everything she performed was standard tuning.
 

JHC

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This may be a stupid question but if a Baroque ens wished to perform in a Church is it possible to easily change the pitch of an Organ or would they have to provide their own instrument say a Chamber Organ?
 

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Not a stupid question at all, Colin ...

I would like to think that a performance group would bring in a portable organ of sorts.

Altering the pitch of a church or performance hall pipe organ is a time consuming task ... my church organ has only 9 ranks and it takes my tuner 3-4 hours to go through the entire organ. I can visualize many more hours for larger pipe organs.

Most digital instruments can be re-tuned in a matter of minutes. Cameron Carpenter's touring organ has such a control on lower left side of the stop tabs.

Analog organs have tuning controls for each stop and would be akin to tuning a pipe organ.
 

JHC

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Thanks, I thought that would be the case but with all those knobs (sorry stops) to play with you never know.
I have seen a few A Capella groups in concert over the last 30 or so years and they all used a tuning fork for pitch at the beginning and if I recall correctly even for each work.
 

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You're welcome, Colin.

Some A Capella choirs also use a pitch-pipe (cylindrical and fits nicely in the palm of the hand).
 

JHC

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A change of subject .. this brought tears to my eyes. It is in HD so you can go full screen

 

John Watt

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Huh! When I was in bands on the road in the seventies,
when synthesizers came out, I spent a lot of down time with keyboardists,
hitting a note on a keyboard and trying to guess what it was,
and then doing that with a guitar with effects.

Early synths would heat up under the lights and change pitch, oh yeah.
I also used to practice standing there with my guitar, looking away,
and reaching for the fret I wanted.
People who came to see me play guitar were surprised I didn't watch myself,
most of the time. I'd hear people shouting he's not even looking.
Unless I was eating, travelling around, I carrried my guitar around my neck,
playing it while I walked, doing everything Jimi said he did in interviews,
so I could be one with it. I only have one guitar, my instrument.
And I made it myself.

When I got my long hair and long beard shorn a few weeks ago,
I saved the hair, saying I was going to make some paint brushes out of it,
for my artwork, and it grosses a lot of people out.
Oh yeah, I'll be having some for show, if nothing else.
Long-hair quills.
 
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JHC

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It is interesting how quickly an instrument goes out of tune, at chamber concerts the members of a St Qt will re tune consistently through out the evening, now my flute once it has warmed up requires next to no adjustment.
 
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