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Re: Eberhard's intonation...
--- Jair-Rohm <gtc@chello.se> wrote:
>>Playing a fretted instrument or a lined instrument
>>often hinders a musicians ability
>> to access these sophisticated techniques.
>I understand your point where it applies to fretted
>instruments, but how would lines hinder one from
>playing between them, especially if one is not looking
>at them?
>-t-
Good question, Tim. Looking at lines
(like frets) causes people to perceive the fingerboard as a finite
matrix consisting of a finite number of 'pitches' which are/should be
located in the same place all of the time. Playing between the lines is
not the same thing as "using intonation" as a
compositional/improvisational device. On the other hand, if the player
isn't looking at the fingerboard/lines, what's the point in having them?
Note that i said that it's the 'looking' that causes the damage. Also,
this concept only really applies to music that isn't locked into 12
pitches to the octave equal temperament.
Hope this clears things up a little.
JPW
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