| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Re: intonation question | | Date: | Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:54:25 (-0800) | | From: | Larry <orlidon @.......net>
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Mr. Deneve (and others),
With my inherently thick Polish head that certainly does not recognize perfect
pitch if it ran
over me with a truck, I have to wonder that in the real world if my wax and hair
filled ears would
pick up such minute differences in pitch. Using the numbers provided in your
posting that each
string changes by a factor of 105.9463094 (about 6%) and say that I roughly
measure the distance
between my 4th and 5th fret, about 1 3/32 (1.093) with a scale, add 6% to that
number, and it
gives me a distance of about .066 or about 1/16 of an inch. This distance would
diminish even more
as we move up the neck. So when I sit in my quiet office in front of the
computer and move my bar
on the string about 1/16th of an inch at the 5th fret, I can only very very
barely distinguish a
difference in tone from one position to another in a quiet room. Maybe certain
South American bats
or audio instrumentation engineers are more adept than I am though.
In the real world playing with others who commonly have a few beers under their
belt, standing
next to a ojnab player whose Keith tuners are slipping if not the banjo player
himself, also
standing next to a fiddler whose squeaking and squawking resembles an old rusty
door hinge, who is
standing next to a base player who is not only making the floor and my innards
vibrate and sending
it all through speakers that are slowly moving across the floor out to an
audience who has even
more beers under their belt who is very likely paying more attention to the foxy
gal next to him
more than the reso players intonation being off by a few nano hertz's. I am
beginning to wonder if
we aren't over spitting hairs a bit here. Now I am very glad that fine lutherie
is not like
playing horse shoes or tossing hand granades and that is what makes the
difference between a
finely built guitar such as a DeNeve and a Chung Fu reso or some such thing made
in a Chinese
prison camp. Now if you are pulling your hair out over such things making your
guitars, I will
personally forgive you if your frets are out by an angstrom (10 x 10 -17th) or
two. Keep the hair
please. ...or are we a bit late for that? (;>)
Larry
back to deep lurk mode
SF Bay Area
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Dick said:
"That is, each note's frequency is increased by a given amount (105.9463094
times the frequency of
the next note lower) to attain
the next note. All notes are separated by the same mathematical amount.
Once again, more than you need to know."
Dick DeNeve
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