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Pianoaccordatore
greetings to all the friends of the forum . . .
.......watching the video on tuning, I realized that in the first part of the video,
Paolo turns his head to the right, consequently offering his left ear toward the sound.
During tuning, I often notice that I involuntarily make the same gesture.
so the question is: is there a preferred ear to better hear the smallest nuances of the sound?
Moderator
Absolutely not. It is an unwanted gesture. However, in the high registers, one must move with the whole body to seek the directionality of the sound wave. When it is captured, the sound is heard more strongly and this helps in playing unisons. Let's not forget that in the high and super-high registers, the harmonics are short-lived and listening to the clarity of the fundamental at the moment of the attack transient is important.
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pianoexpert wrote:
Let's not forget that in the high and super-high registers, the harmonics are short-lived
I would have sworn that there are fewer, how does the principle of duration you mentioned fit into the discussion?
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Ok. Let's not "overanalyze" the words. It even happens, sometimes, to hear only a single attack stroke in the high notes with a rapid decay of sound. The fundamental overwhelms the few harmonics and also lives for a very short time. So, would that be okay?
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pianoexpert wrote:
Ok. Let's not be too literal with words. It even happens, sometimes, to hear only a single attack stroke in the high notes with a rapid decay of sound. The fundamental overwhelms the few harmonics and also lives for a very short time. So, would that be okay?
I perceive a certain stiffness but I don't understand the reason; surely I have the right to ask a question, don't I?
I was asking because the piano, although it is the traditional instrument with the greatest range, covers only a limited spectrum of sounds perceptible by humans.
Towards the bass it has good coverage, but towards the treble register instead it faces strong limits; that is why clearly once close to the extreme high end... the available harmonics are very few.
The duration you refer to seems more related to the "robustness" of the sounds in that register and therefore perhaps more related to resonance... to which the harmonics clearly also contribute.
But mine is just thinking out loud... I don't know what you or others interested in the discussion think (aside from the definitions).
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Absolutely no stiffening, my friend. None. And I fear complicating things. Of creating confusion. Very well. In my opinion, your clarification is correct. In short... let's make ourselves understood.. here in the highs, harmonics are heard little and, if at all, for a short time. In the lows, indeed, the harmonics prevail so much in their "protagonism" that they reconstruct, during our listening, the fundamental sound!!! Here a certain Physicist named GENNARINO could enlighten us scientifically!!!! I hope... he will!!!
