[Trombone-l] intonation

[Adrian Drover]

> From: Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Ansbach DPW
> 
> Do you really think that happens?
> 
> That a player becomes so good at playing equal temperament that he can't
> play with a real world group?


No, Tim, but I do agree that no musician should be slave to a tuning device.
A tuning device has only 12 pitches.  The real world of music has hundreds
(thousands?).  There are far too many influences in music to which you have
to adapt your pitch, such as key, harmonic progression and the position of
your note in the current chord or scale.  You know when you are in tune when
you feel comfortable with everything that is going on around you.  No fixed
pitch electronic device is going to help with that.  Ears are the best
tuning device the musician can possess.  You find it easier to play when you
and everyone else around you are listening to the music they are playing.

Have you ever heard a fixed pitch synth that sounds more wonderful than a
live orchestra?

A.