Post by YetAnotherKlavierist on Sept 16, 2006 12:06:51 GMT
Oh my....
It was the first Baroque ensemble rehearsal a few days ago since July, over which time the harpsichord hadn't been tuned. I arrived 30 minutes early to warm up, to find it had gone somewhat sharp - somewhere in the region of a whole semitone sharp
.
It made for an 'interesting' rehearsal - I found myself sight-reading harpsichord parts and transposing them down a semitone to make the harpsichord play at approximately the same pitch as the rest of the instruments. It well and truly messed with my head though: my ears were telling me I was playing one thing (the curse of absolute pitch
), my hands were telling me another, and what I was reading wasn't right either. After an hour or so of rehearsal, our piano at home sounded out of tune - it's digital....
It's being tuned on Wednesday, thankfully.
It was the first Baroque ensemble rehearsal a few days ago since July, over which time the harpsichord hadn't been tuned. I arrived 30 minutes early to warm up, to find it had gone somewhat sharp - somewhere in the region of a whole semitone sharp
.It made for an 'interesting' rehearsal - I found myself sight-reading harpsichord parts and transposing them down a semitone to make the harpsichord play at approximately the same pitch as the rest of the instruments. It well and truly messed with my head though: my ears were telling me I was playing one thing (the curse of absolute pitch
), my hands were telling me another, and what I was reading wasn't right either. After an hour or so of rehearsal, our piano at home sounded out of tune - it's digital....It's being tuned on Wednesday, thankfully.
) and I kept having to plead with the harpsichordist to crank his instrument down for "Xerxes", too..
