If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (1778)

Re:If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate thi... by bloak on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:22AM (#33231661)

A bugle can't do equal temperament, so yes, but are there any standard orchestral instruments that can't be made to do equal temperament?

Obviously a string quartet doesn't normally play equal temperament, but they could if they wanted to, I think, if we ignore the playing of harmonics, which is a fairly unusual technique.

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Re:If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate thi... by sethgrisham on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:03AM (#33231937)

Just because an instrument can do equal temperament doesn't mean that is necessarily the best choice. Although absolute pitch can't be heard by most, relative pitch can, and so when playing any interval, such as a fourth, it will sound off in equal temperament, yet sound perfect when you put it "out of tune". There's some pretty interesting music theory that comes out of the traditional 12 tones not being able to be equally subdivided to then be arranged into those perfect intervals

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Re:If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate thi... by goto11 on Monday October 17, 2022 @08:27AM (#33232585)

> Obviously a string quartet doesn't normally play equal temperament

This seem to refute the assertion by arxanas that "all keys sound the same (unless you have perfect pitch)".

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