kb57z (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:52 am
The ratio of the frequencies of the notes is square root of 2 to 1, which means that sounds dreadful (if you're a mediaeval monk, at least.)
On a modern piano, the augmented fourth is the same two keys as the diminished fifth, (which is entirely acceptable in the right context) In order to tell the difference you have to look at the notes as written down on the page.
kb, Lenoard Bernstein did a pretty good job of the Augmented 4th with the opening notes of "Maria" from "West Side Story."
I took electric organ and piano lessons for about 10 years and when I went to college for engineering I stopped the lessons. I college I wanted to do something and since pianos can't march (think about it) ... I took up bagpipes.
We used to tell the freshmen that the reason Pipers wore Skean-Dhu's and Dirks (dagger and short sword) was that when the horse ran over you, you could slit the stomach of the horse. Only the nerds believed us.
If a piper tells you that he's been playing 20 years, 10 of them have been spent tuning up and the other 10 playing out of key.
The practice chanter sounds like a set of pipes with a nasal condition. It has a plastic reed and makes such an oleagenous noise that it's been banned in several countries.
When you are on a football field wearing a kilt, you might not know where the cold winter wind is coming from, but you sure as hell know where it goes.
Where's the best place for a piper to practice - out in the field alone and away from the animals
What the best song you ever heard on a bagpipe? - Over the hill and far away
What do you get when you drop a piano into a coal mine - - - A flat miner
Coming from a part of the world that is noted for musical coal miners, I would have said that the miner/piano scenario is less likely to be encountered in the mine than in the Miners' Welfare Institute after work on payday...
kb57z (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:44 am
Coming from a part of the world that is noted for musical coal miners, I would have said that the miner/piano scenario is less likely to be encountered in the mine than in the Miners' Welfare Institute after work on payday...
That's interesting. Seriously, how many coal miners do play an instrument? And what is the favorite instrument?
Studlover (imported) wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:25 am
That's interesting. Seriously, how many coal miners do play an instrument? And what is the favorite instrument?
Studlover
Studlover,
The answer to your question is 'the voice'.
He is talking of Wales which has always claimed to be musical, but I am afraid that the opinion of the rest of the country tends to be summed up as: "The Welsh, sing far to loud, far to often and flat!
