just messed around on a keyboard a bit and i can't unhear it now. major thirds in equal temperament sound off 🤢 can't believe i've been playing "nervous, agitated" thirds on a piano my entire life
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String instruments ftw
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i guess it's an interesting q what tuning a guitar ends up in... each string has a fixed frequency ratio among other notes on the same string but you can mess around with the ratios b/w strings. if you tune to EADGBE... a fourth, a fourth, a fourth, a third, a fourth... hmm
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Hmm well I didn’t meant guitars bc of the frets. I played the cello, and I can play a note a little differently each time depending on context. I remember my first cello teacher telling me about this.
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whoa yeah i guess cellos and violins don't have frets
wow jeez so you have to learn to finger and bow the strings in specific places huh damn that sounds hard
Yeah and there is some crazy microtonal type music for them
Played cello as a kid, at first it's hard to know where the notes are, particularly because the distance between notes *decreases* physically as you move down the string.
And don't even get me started on hand positions and other clefs.
But like all things, you get used to it.
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incidentally I have been practicing playing the guitar *by feel*, & while it sounds hard, there’s a certain fingertip sensitivity that develops that I find superior to thinking in frets
also if you’re playing single notes, you can bend! you can bend more notes too if you gangsta
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