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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 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 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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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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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. |
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Mar 1 |
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Is there a common left hand position in accordion? This is a very generic point, but one thing that really helps me with my violin technique is to ask my teacher. You may be able to find an accordion teacher who would do a one-off lesson. Who knows, you may end up coming back for more. |
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Mar 1 |
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The origin of “Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father” I don't know but I wonder if the folk on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange site will: english.stackexchange.com/q/105726/28914 |
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Oct 3 |
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What is the difference between a mode and a scale? +1 for citing a musical example, that's helped me. |
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Oct 2 |
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What are the modes derived from the C major scale? It's worth noting, as the Wikipedia article Wheat mentioned does, that there are modes beyond the seven formed by starting at different points in C major. Some of these come from folk or cultural traditions (e.g. Hava Nagila is in a mode called Freygish) while others are more theoretical (e.g. the Bohlen-Pierce scale). OK, perhaps it wasn't worth noting the theoretical ones ;-) |
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Oct 2 |
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Why are we worse in the second half and how might we fix that? I was wondering that Nick. Next concert I may (once the programme's decided) suggest swapping the halves! |
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Jul 10 |
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Sites with a good selection of sheet music Thanks Wheat - IMSLP proved useful for me. |
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May 10 |
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My high E string broke after one week of replacing my guitar strings. Could that be an installation issue? running a soft pencil in the grove on the nut can help lubricate that safely. You can also get a fret burnishing tool. But given your diagnosis I'd be tempted to take it back to the shop, explain the problem, and ask them to dress the frets. |
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May 10 |
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Is it possible for an unamplified acoustic bass guitar to be loud? If you make a UK trip the amazing Aladdin's Cave known as The Early Music Shop sells them in kit form! |
