I tune to 415.3, but only on "fresh" tunings. Usually I just take the overall pitch as is (higher or lower due to humidity and temperature) and only tune the untuned strings.
Dom
> Il giorno 07/feb/2016, alle ore 20:27, Jonathan Addleman wrote:
> So again, the question - is the 'standard', such as it is, 415, or should it really be 415.3? Does anyone but me tune to 415.3?
>
> Jonathan
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>> On 07/02/16 01:34 PM, T. Diehl wrote:
>> Hello David,
>> This topic, amongst others was in one of the textbooks we used in a course
>> at conservatory, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics or such... The section
>> on how the ear works when 'tuning' was amazingly informative and
>> fascinating.
>>
>> Anyway, let me try to explain in a simplified way, leaving out decibels and
>> other aspects:
>> Any tone or pitch, is the product of vibrations taking place within a unit
>> of time (for Hz: 1 second)
>>
>> So let's imagine a simple sinusoid, a plain tone like those from a tone
>> generator and put it in a graph.Here is one we can use:
>> http://www.featurepics.com/online/simple-red-sound-wave-973855.aspx
>>
>> If this wave you see on the link is taking place exactly within one second,
>> we could then say it is a picture of a sinusoid tone of 1 Hz. That is to
>> say both the 'humps' above AND below comprise the 1 Hz example.
>>
>> It travels to your ear. (I leave out the inner workings further!)
>> The upper 'hump' compresses the typanum inwards;
>> The lower 'hump' allows the tympanum to release outwards;
>> If this COMPLETE CYCLE inwards/outwards cycle takes place in one second you
>> will hear a tone of one Hz. 2x of these cycles, 2Hz - etc. etc. etc.
>>
>> In reality, the sinus is incredibly complex, with overtones and all kinds
>> of spikes.
>> And human hearing does not go dwon to 1Hz ;@-)
>> Nonetheless, this inward/outward motion in a second is how we are able to
>> define pitch as Hz.
>> Even microphones work in this exact same manner.
>>
>> So, then what about the 0.3 Hz question?
>> Adding 0.3 Hz to this example means that the sinus would start another new,
>> partial journey upwards in the picture. Your ear cannot percive it as pitch
>> because, simply put, it needs the whole cycle of in/out as a measurement -
>> pitch is for the ear a very 'mechanical' process. Depending on the decibel
>> level and your distance to the sound, that 0.3 will dissapper into a
>> perception of color or be ignored by your brain
>>
>> Hope this helps?
>> Cheers
>> Theodore
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