III - Music (in English)Ignorance Illusion Imitation2022-03-23T23:19:44+01:00Alexandre Oberlinurn:md5:d1d4b11dd80b79fc5ac3f51ea4b5f7d1DotclearWhy should the finest musical instruments be absurdly crippled?urn:md5:6008406ba401158dce369e840156d5eb2014-01-14T16:16:00+01:002015-03-24T16:35:21+01:00Alexandre OberlinMusic (in English)crippledguitarkeyboardtemperamenttuninguniform<p><strong>I was always feeling like an automaton or a circus dog...</strong></p> <p>As you know if you have been rambling around my website for <a href="http://migo.info/music/major_third_guitar_tuning.xhtml_en.html" hreflang="en">a rational way to tune the guitar</a> or <a href="http://migo.info/music/bilinear_chromatic_keyboard.xhtml_en.html" hreflang="en">the non-reasons behind the irregular piano layout</a> I am a definite supporter of uniform tuning, for guitar and for other instruments which are just lame due to outdated concepts and terribly sticky mistakes. I am glad that the string quartet is not among them.
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Concerning the tuning of the guitar in major thirds, I am not expressing theoretical views. I know what I am talking about because I know what I could do before I used major thirds and what I can do now, and I tell you there is nothing to compare.
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With the standard tuning I had tried pop songs, folk tunes, to finally work pretty hard on classical stuff at a time. I could play tenths of classical pieces of different periods. However I WAS ALWAYS FEELING LIKE AN AUTOMATON OR A CIRCUS DOG...
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Then one day I made up my mind to tune my guitar afresh and I knew at once that nothing would ever be the same. With major thirds tuning I AM IN CONTROL. I always know where I stand and what I may try. I know what chord I am playing and in which scale. Despite my very modest level, I can experiment and come up with audible tunes. This of course is due to the fact that the distribution of notes is LOGICAL. Being logical, it reduces to a very small number of patterns and becomes very quickly intuitive. Would you buy a car whose steering wheel must be turned twice more to turn to the right than to the left? Do you think it would be easy to get used to it? I guess the driving teachers would support it because the learning period would last so much more...
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"The arrangement of longer keys for C major with intervening, shorter keys for the intermediate semitones dates to the 15th century." (Wikipedia).
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HEY PEOPLE WAKE UP!
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About the uniform keyboard:
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"This invention will have replaced the present piano keyboard in fifty years time!" -- Franz Liszt
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"If I were to begin my career anew it would be on this keyboard." -- Arthur Rubinstein
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<p><br /> Just amateurs ?</p>http://migo.info/blog2/index.php?post/2014/01/14/Poor-crippled-musical-instruments#comment-formhttp://migo.info/blog2/index.php?feed/atom/comments/32The Bilinear Uniform Chromatic Keyboard (BUCK)urn:md5:512b43002c688199686e83816c3076b42012-08-08T23:02:00+02:002013-12-26T13:53:59+01:00Alexandre OberlinMusic (in English)bilinearBUCKchromaticguitarhindranceinertiakeyboardlearningtemperamenttranspositiontuninguniform<p><strong>Why are there more white keys than black keys?</strong></p> <a href="http://migo.info/music/bilinear_chromatic_keyboard.xhtml_en.html" <p=""><strong>See updated post</strong>
</a>http://migo.info/blog2/index.php?post/2012/08/08/The-Bilinear-Uniform-Chromatic-Keyboard-%28BUCK%29#comment-formhttp://migo.info/blog2/index.php?feed/atom/comments/21Tuning your guitar in major thirdsurn:md5:d5b909b1ed0efb6b551cace61d24aedf2012-08-08T22:24:00+02:002013-12-26T13:55:09+01:00Alexandre OberlinMusic (in English)guitarimprovisationtemperamenttranspositiontuninguniform<p><strong>Tune afresh and improvise!</strong></p> <a href="http://migo.info/music/major_third_guitar_tuning.xhtml_en.html" <p=""><strong>See updated post</strong>
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