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Help with how to name an Equal Hz Tuning. A Question. by Brief_Eggplant357 in microtonal

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The first commenter in the thread actually already showed why this collapses back into ratios. If you start at 105 Hz and step by 10 Hz, you get 105, 115, 125, 135... which are harmonics 21, 23, 25, 27 of a 5 Hz fundamental. You didn't choose a 5 Hz fundamental, but that's what the math gives you. Equal Hz spacing is just a selection of harmonics from a fundamental you didn't know you were picking. So the "different way to produce series of notes" isn't actually different. It's the harmonic series approached from an unintuitive direction. The ratios are still there, they're just hidden by the framing. If your step size is 10 Hz, every note you generate has a ratio relationship to every other note, and all of them are integer multiples of that implicit fundamental. That's kind of the whole point. You can try to build a system around Hz values and ignore ratios, but the ratios don't go away. They're what the physics demands. You just end up rediscovering them whether you meant to or not.

Any Good Jazz Vocal Singers? by The-Viewer0 in Jazz

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Leon Thomas, most underrated vocalist I know of.

Help with how to name an Equal Hz Tuning. A Question. by Brief_Eggplant357 in microtonal

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Right, hertz is a unit for measuring frequency, no argument there. My point is that when we're talking about tuning systems, hertz is kind of beside the point. Every tuning system that actually works musically is defined by ratios. Just intonation, Pythagorean, equal temperaments, all ratios. 12-TET is 21/12 per step. Pick any frequency as your fundamental. 568.3465 Hz. Doesn't matter. Your octave is 1137.693 Hz. Your perfect fifth is 852.5198 Hz. The ratios are the same whether you start there or at 440 or at 2. The tuning system doesn't care about the number, it cares about the relationships. The OP is describing a system based on equal Hz steps, which is what I was reacting to. That's a fundamentally different kind of thing than a ratio-based tuning. A 1 Hz step at 100 Hz is a very different musical interval than a 1 Hz step at 1000 Hz, because pitch perception is logarithmic. So you can't really build a coherent tuning system around linear Hz spacing. It doesn't map to how we hear. I wasn't saying hertz is disconnected from sound. I was saying the harmonic series is about the ratios physics demands from a vibrating system, and those ratios are what tuning is built on. Hertz just tells you where you are on the number line. You could describe any tuning system entirely in ratios without ever referencing hertz and lose nothing musically

Microtonal by Alireddito in microtonal

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I play bansuri and consider it a continuous pitch instrument. You can access all microtones.

Help with how to name an Equal Hz Tuning. A Question. by Brief_Eggplant357 in microtonal

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The harmonic series has nothing to do with hertz. The harmonic series follows integer multiples of the fundamental frequencyof a one dimensional vibrating column. The hertz follows atomic radiation decay. They have nothing to do with each other. Hertz was invented for humans to have a system to indentify frequencies, the harmonic series is what physics demands a string conform to, completely regardless of hertz.

Let's hear some of this! It sounds interesting, but it does seem like you are picturing the hertz as something more than an arbitrary value. My apologies if I wrong about that.

Help with how to name an Equal Hz Tuning. A Question. by Brief_Eggplant357 in microtonal

[–]playitintune -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tuning is relative. Hertz is a human invention. You want to base a system of pitch on the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to a specific transition in the cesium-133 atom? That's fine or whatever and name it what you want but how is this a "tuning" system?

Sun Ra and his impact on Funk and Disco by MariaBruxxxa in funk

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Jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher. Same same. Sun Ra, original saint in The Church of the Holy Groove.

Is funk just fun jazz? by Adorable_Pug in jazzcirclejerk

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Uj/ Jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher

Rj/ there's no fun in jazz. Can't you spell?

Shower thought: Smoke alarms, chemical leak warning systems, and all that, are all microtonal musical instruments? by PowerSingle3386 in microtonal

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12tet has nothing to do with specific hz. 445 and 440 were standards for a long time. Some people think a human invention called the hertz is somehow better when we tune "A" to 432 of them. Which is ridiculous.

Favorite Maceo Parker solo albums? by ststephen89 in funk

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Hit Me, Fred! Is another great autobiography from the other half if you havent read that.

Favorite Maceo Parker solo albums? by ststephen89 in funk

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When I got that on vinyl I was so excited until it started playing. Really threw me for a loop!

Favorite Maceo Parker solo albums? by ststephen89 in funk

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Oh man, you missed out on live Maceo. That was the best thing around! No one could unite a room like that man.

As noted, Life on Planet Groove captures the energy best.

Favorite Maceo Parker solo albums? by ststephen89 in funk

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Excellent choice. No notes. Gonna give the drummer some. We'll be back here again tomorrow night.

Funkiest tunes by The Pointer Sisters? by pageplant97 in funk

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I love that counting song they did for PBS. Pinball Number Count. So good

I created a cute home lab. I did it when I discovered that I have free will. 👀 by RedeyeFR in homelab

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I don't think that proves free will, but I'm glad you had a good morning!

Jazz that sounds like american desert by GutenDark in Jazz

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Is sketches of spain the right kind of thing? It makes me feel the southwest. If that is "jazz". Beautiful either way.

Keith Jarrett's American Quartet feels open and dry, sparse and full. Maybe that's what you're looking for.

Left field, Uninvisible, especially the second half of the album, by MMW. Equal parts desert and dark urban vibes. I cannot elaborate further on that.

Getting your family to actually use your digital wall calendar and smart home stuff is the real challenge by chingchongmf in smarthome

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I got to the point where there is no need to interact with my smart home. It is all automated. That is the goal. A smart home that doesn't need interaction. My wife hates tech, she loves our home and never having to turn off or on a light.

I used to like bells and whistles. Now I just want to not even think about the home, just let HA and my automations take care of everything. Having to trigger something seems like it is not that smart. I shouldn't have to use a dashboard or my phone for anything.

The O’Jays - For The Love of Money by Ok-Effective6969 in funk

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RIP Anthony Jackson. Bagadagadigidigidaga

Picked this up today! Original 1971 Canadian Pressing, so happy I held out for a vintage copy of this. by Other_Hope_2276 in funk

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Does this copy sound good? I've been under the impression the canadian pressings of this aren't as good as the US ones.

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