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| bio | website | dumbledad.wordpress.com |
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| location | Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 2 months |
| seen | May 19 at 14:25 | |
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Essex born programmer and researcher at Microsoft's lab in Cambridge. Dad. Opera lover. Keen but shite violinist. Too many hobbies and obsessions to list!
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May 17 |
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Do I need a teacher to learn violin? readability |
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May 17 |
answered | Do I need a teacher to learn violin? |
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May 14 |
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mandolin wiki excerpt added 386 characters in body |
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May 14 |
wiki | created mandolin excerpt |
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May 14 |
suggested | suggested edit on mandolin tag wiki excerpt |
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May 14 |
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Sound spectrum to notes software If code for pitch detection would be helpful try some of the answers to these stackoverflow questions: Graphing the pitch of a sound, Sound frequency detection, Real time pitch detection, and Pitch detection using FFT for trumpet. |
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May 14 |
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Sound spectrum to notes software Not quite. I do recall a trick for getting the frequency of a sound by offsetting until the graphs match ('twas a colleagues hobby code - so I'd have to check that). If that proved reliable one could present frequency and closest note, like tuning apps do. |
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May 14 |
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Sound spectrum to notes software When you say "software" do you want an application or some software code? |
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Apr 19 |
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Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? deleted 6 characters in body |
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Apr 19 |
awarded | Editor |
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Apr 19 |
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Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? readability |
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Apr 19 |
answered | Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? |
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Apr 11 |
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Is it possible for an unamplified acoustic bass guitar to be loud? The 1916 Gibson mando-bass looks useful: orgs.usd.edu/nmm/PluckedStrings/Mandolins/Gibson/2883/… No idea where one would find one! |
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Apr 8 |
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Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? I know this is a question about shape, and so the point that carbon-fibre violins sometimes are and sometimes are not the same shape is informative, but I did just want to chime in with a note about materials. If you draw a graph that maps density with elasticity or strength (e.g. Figures 1 and 3 in Claire Barlow's 1997 paper "Materials Selection for Musical Instruments" in the Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 19/5 pages 916-920 - sorry, I cannot find a free link, just this direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=038339369&ETOC=RN ) you see that the best material is ... wood. |
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Apr 8 |
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What do you call plucking the violin strings with the finger, rather than using the bow? Does left-hand pizz always have its own notation? I thought it was sometimes a used when both (1) the length of time between arco-pizz-arco was insufficient to pluck with the right hand and (2) the pizz was possible with the left? |
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Apr 1 |
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What resource teaches me finger placement for violin sheet music? As a beginner stick with first position for a while before venturing into third and higher positions. |
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Apr 1 |
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Apr 1 |
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Why do minor keys sound “sad”? I too cannot see how "On a meta note, do we have some way (yet?) of representing musical notation?" helps answer the question, and why the aside was not just posted on meta instead of here. |
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Apr 1 |
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Apr 1 |
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Why do minor keys sound “sad”? I don't agree that "When you play a low C, you're not hearing only C, but every other harmonic or overtone that belongs to C". Our ear and perceptual systems do not add every overtone. Many instruments do, but not all instruments. |
