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| location | Fürth, Germany | |
| age | 54 | |
| visits | member for | 10 months |
| seen | 1 hour ago | |
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Computer scientist playing bassoon, musically at home in baroque music
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May 15 |
answered | Why is the recorder a good instrument to start with? |
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May 15 |
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Could B♭ instruments be built in C? Why are they in B♭ in the first place? Every musical notation software I know of makes it a snap to adjust voices to a transposing instrument. You are not talking about writing notes with pen on paper? |
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May 15 |
answered | Game Digital music instrumentation? |
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May 1 |
answered | Sight reading (“two hands”) for one non-performers? |
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Apr 26 |
answered | Transcribing a Standard MIDI File to sheet music |
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Apr 26 |
awarded | Critic |
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Apr 26 |
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Learning instrument recognition Obviously this requires, that the instruments are visually recognized reliably. So the first step would be to click through orchestral instruments in wikipedia first (string, woodwinds and brass for the beginning), where the sound clips may give a first idea. |
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Apr 23 |
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Which instrument is more suitable for playing a romantic song? @Praveen James: I'd suggest violin, viola or violoncello from strings or clarinet / oboe from woodwinds under these circumstances. |
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Apr 22 |
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Which instrument is more suitable for playing a romantic song? MORE suitable than which other instrument? What is your reference? Is romantic intended to refer to the epoch or to the mood? |
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Apr 17 |
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What is the reason for pitch inflation? There seems to exist a counter-movement, mainly supported by singers, but also instrumentalists arguing for richer overtones, as can be seen here. |
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Apr 16 |
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Difference between Baritone and Euphonium Some of your differences seem not quite right, so both instruments belong to the saxhorn family and have a conical-bore, also the number of valves allows no reliable distinction. I'll try an update after some research. |
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Apr 11 |
awarded | Informed |
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Apr 10 |
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What do you call plucking the violin strings with the finger, rather than using the bow? My reference also gives "loco" as notation for "back to normal" (i.e. arco); however the main use of "loco" is to switch back to pitch as notated after an octavation passage. |
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Apr 3 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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Apr 2 |
answered | What does one slash through a half note stem AND 4 dots above it mean? |
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Mar 30 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 30 |
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Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? @VruxNix. Actually, yes, and the short title of the book is already mentioned. The full title is Otto Möckel, Geigenbaukunst (Art of Violin Making), 8th edition, revised by Prof. Dr. Fritz Winkel, Technical University Berlin, chapter I/B/2; admittedly the book dates from 1954. I find it plausible, since the bridge is in direct contact with top plate only - lutes may be completelety different. While I'm neither expert physicist nor musician, I'm astonished, that the violin should already have been physically modelled to such a degree to allow quantitative reponsibilities assigned. |
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Mar 20 |
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Guitar practice - general techniques Musicians may have a hard time reading "logarithmic". Fortunately there is a much less intimidating version: the mechanical metronomes don't offer single BPM steps, but bigger chunks, which are also increasing with the total speed. These mechanical steps are also emulated by some digital metronomes. One metronome step is typically still too small a difference but two steps is noticable. |
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Mar 19 |
answered | Arbitrary length full-measure rests in Lilypond |
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Mar 7 |
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Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? Information from literature added |
