Timeline for General term to cover piano fingerings, trombone slide positions, Theremin hand positions, etc
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| Feb 15, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/1361374731677691916 | ||
| Feb 12, 2021 at 10:41 | comment | added | guidot | Piano fingerings are explicitly mentioned, but have no influence on the pitch?! | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 23:25 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2021 at 22:33 | answer | added | Michael Curtis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 20:08 | comment | added | user75116 | You could try "pitch control". | |
| Feb 11, 2021 at 19:07 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | Scott Wallace | @Aaron - Yes, putting the hand in the bell of a french horn lowers the pitch, but it also alters the timbre. Would your term be limited to hands? What about the recorder player's technique of stopping the end of the instrument with their knee? Or lipping notes up or down, as all wind players do? Or vibrato? I don't see how you can draw a clear boundary between "basic note production" and "technique". | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 11:19 | comment | added | Aaron | @ScottWallace Is the bell-hand part of the basic note production? If yes, then it would fall under the term I'm looking for (or inventing); if no, then it would fall under another term, like "technique". | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 9:44 | comment | added | Scott Wallace | I think it would be hard to cover all the ways instruments are manipulated to alter pitch with one term, that would not have ambiguity. For instance- french horn players not only finger the valves with their left hand; they also change the pitch with their right hand in the bell. Would both hands be covered by such a term? Seems to me that any such term would be too ambiguous. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 21:13 | comment | added | Aaron | @MattPutnam Possibly, although that term covers a lot of territory compared to, say, "fingering", which is a specific area of technique. It's worth consideration. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 20:55 | comment | added | MattPutnam | Does "Technique" work? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 18:54 | answer | added | user1079505 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 17:36 | comment | added | musicamante | Maybe something related to "modulation"? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 9:42 | comment | added | guidot | I note, that this would also cover fingerboard positions for violin family, but am afraid the even in the restricted form the asked concept is quite broad and there may be no term for it. Interestingly muscle memory as the source for doing all that correctly, is pretty established. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 6:09 | history | edited | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | Aaron | @ToddWilcox Yeah, it's sticky. "Pitch/note selection" makes me think of composing/improvising as opposed to the mechanical aspect. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 5:03 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | If I were trying to write about that I would probably describe those actions as “pitch selection” or “note selection”. Not very elegant, I admit. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 4:56 | history | asked | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |