I thought my question and its answer might be of interest to the group: From: Bernd Kohler To: brill@oakland.edu¶ Subject: Pitch to Midi¶ Hello Mr. Pleatman On Thu, 5 Oct 1995, you wrote:¶ > I noticed your recently uploaded program for detecting the frequency of > played music, and thought you might...

Another letter and its answer; I still think the idea is feasible and has commercial possibilities. I think of the old 78 recordings of Arthur Schnabel playing the Beethoven sonatas. If these performances could be extracted to midi files and then recreated on a modern piano, I think the recordings w...

•I was sent this by Andrew Emmerson who edits a journal called "405 Alive" for enthusiasts of television history. He received the question in a letter from a reader. Please reply to the digest and to Andy directly. > From (Andrew Emmerson) midshires@cix.co.uk.geentroep [ drop .geentroep to reply ] >...

•[ Quoted from 000317 MMD, "Up The Keys is Down In Pitch" ] > I talked to this tuner later and asked him what happened and he said > that they agreed that she would just "tell him when the note was > right". What wound up happening was that my tuning was fine with her > until the treble break, at wh...

•Would anyone know the pitch and length of Lotus flute pipes? Ben Waterbury

•In the 1/31 issue of MMD, Jim Hendershot wrote: > Was there more than one groove standard? On first playing, I noticed > that my Ediphone was tracking faster than the cylinder. Was there > perhaps a change in the number of grooves per inch on later machines? > If someone knows, drop me a line. Than...

•In MMD for 98-02-27, Elian Degen asked, in relation to the Teresa Carreno CD project: > I am a piano tuner and technician, and I am interested in some > historic data regarding the pitch used between 1905 and 1915 and > the temperament used ? Tuning pianos to equal temperament has been almost unive...

•"Study Links Perfect Pitch to Tonal Language" from The New York Times Most native speakers of languages that use tones to convey meaning may have a form of perfect pitch, according to new research. The results may suggest that many or even most babies are born with perfect pitch but lose it if they...

•I know I will shock and appall some by this message. Others will be crushed and have their self esteem shaken. However, there is no such thing as perfect pitch in the modern musical world. The use of the term perfect pitch in speaking tone languages may be valid, however. Tone languages are found o...

•As a piano tuner who tunes by ear, clients sometimes say, "So you have perfect pitch, do you?" I then proceed to disappoint them by telling them what they don't want to hear: that I have relative, not perfect pitch. Invariably I end up in a long lecture about the meaning of the two terms and how my...

•Though perfect pitch can probably be used for party tricks, I've seen it put to some fairly astounding purposes. Our choir director in high school had perfect pitch, as did one or two of the singers, who could be depended on at performances to give the initial pitches, accurately, to the rest of th...

•G'day all, I heard an interesting story about Jussi Bjorling, the great Swedish tenor, on a local radio program this morning. During a recording session, he was not happy about his top C and insisted on singing the song a semitone lower. The final recording, released in the lower key, received grea...

•All the discussion about perfect pitch, pitch memory or whatever, reminds me of a scene in a movie a few years back which goes something like this: The private eye and his faithful sidekick, who is also a very hip musician, are creeping along inside a scary darkened building when all of a sudden th...

•I received the following article from HealthCentral.com. David Stankov, San Dimas, CA. - - - Speakers Of Mandarin, Vietnamese Often Have Perfect Pitch November 12, 1999 If you think perfect pitch is a rare trait, possessed only by musical geniuses such as Mozart, you'll be surprised to learn the re...

•G'day all, I read of a local fellow who has a mental condition but is able to identify correctly 10 different piano notes played simultaneously -- is this a rare feat? I also heard that some people have "perfect colour" and can match colours from memory. I guess like music notes, the degree of diff...

•For those interested in perfect pitch vs. relative pitch see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010222074848.htm John Spradley, Sylmar, California

•Dear David, I read your plea requesting help with organ terminology, among other things, in the MMD. I have a page at my site that explains some of the more general terms of pipe pitching and voicing in organs, specifically with the imitation of organ sounds with MIDI in mind. http://www.geocities...

Forwarded Message: • From: bekosoft@tibalt.supernet. To: ALL Orig: MBNET Subj: intune1w.zip - Chromatic Area: 4-s.msdos.announce Date: 10/05/95 ============================================================================= •I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), (avai...

Many tuners are fearful that if they tune an old piano up to pitch, they are going to start breaking strings. There are several reasons for this, the least of which is not rotten strings or an asymetrically relaxed soundboard. But they might also profit from knowing something else about tension and ...

•Does anyone know if the standard Reproduco organ and piano were originally tuned to A400 or A435 Hz. Also, does anyone have one with the original mandolin rail intact so I might know what kind of rail to install? Thanks. Having a great time indoors with the toys as we run out of water here in Georg...