On 30/04/18 20:54, Malte Meyn wrote: > > > Am 30.04.2018 um 15:50 schrieb Hans Åberg: >> But orchestral instruments depart from Pythagorean tuning, not E12, so >> they are not equivalent, differing by a comma of about 20 cents. > > Which orchestral instruments do you refer to? All instruments that I > know good enough use equal temperament or a good approximation. I don’t > know an orchestral instrument that has different ways to play E♭ and D♯ … > You're confusing equal temperament with monotonic.
Just because an instrument uses the same fingering for Eb and D# (on a trumpet that would be first valve, I believe), doesn't mean that the note is equal temperament, or an accurate Eb or D#. And it's a pretty safe bet that if the player plays the two notes an octave apart they almost certainly aren't an accurate octave ... an Eb, a D#, and the equal temperament fudge are three distinct notes, and your trumpet is probably playing a fourth. True, they're all ALMOST the same ... :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
