Re: Eberhard's intonation...

[Jair-Rohm <gtc@chello.se>]

--- 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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