> On 1 May 2018, at 04:53, Vaughan McAlley <vaug...@mcalley.net.au> wrote: > > On 1 May 2018 at 06:27, Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: > >> Flutes have a very definite pitch, making it hard to play in unison, unlike >> strings then. It is mentioned in Blatter's book on orchestration. > > Flutes can adjust their pitch enough to tune well. I'm mainly a singer, but > when I play flute (my first instrument) I approach pitching like a singer, > and I rarely have tuning issues.
I also think that the flute is quite close to singing in terms of expressibility. > But flute-wise, this is a pretty advanced technique. I trained pitch by holding on certain notes and check against a tuner, originally a teacher, but then an electronic one. > And flute players have to spend a lot of time practicing the semiquavers that > composers so love to give them :-) The flute is easy if practising a lot. :-) > First & second flute in a professional orchestra should be able to play a > unison passage just fine. I have sung in the Bach St John Passion a number of > times, and rarely hear problems with Ich folge dir gleichfalls, and that's > using baroque flutes… It maybe be easier with those, having a softer sound. > One of the major features of Boehm's (ie the modern) flute is that tuning (in > equal temperament) is more consistent. So maybe less thought is put into > tuning by players. The pitches are quite uneven if measured electronically. In addition, the scale was not originally adjusted when the tuning rose to about 440 Hz; this is done in Cooper flutes. > (Good recorder players have all sorts of tuning tricks, I believe) Another post mentioned some. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
