Size is not everything.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/21/2018 at 09:35 • Filed to: None

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jimz > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/21/2018 at 09:47

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if it was good enough for A Perfect Circle...

I had one of those when I was a kid, not that I got much use out of it.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/21/2018 at 10:17

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When I was in undergrad, I took a music history course with a few grad students in it, and they were required to write an extra paper and present it to the class. One grad singer was assigned a report on aleatoric music, and she went on at length about John Cage, and his famous work “Four Feet Thirty-three Inches.”

You either get that, or you don’t.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/21/2018 at 10:32

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I’d say that description measures up..

>assume other jokes about “no beats to the measure” and so on

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/21/2018 at 10:33

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Do you understand her mistake?

TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/21/2018 at 10:41

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(Source: https://xkcd.com/532/ )

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/21/2018 at 10:47

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Yes. The notation error involved in confusing minutes with feet, seconds with inches. Which is all the more hilarious given that “33 inches” is improper. I just wanted to get in a “measurement” joke, because they rule.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/21/2018 at 11:16

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And she said it with a completely straight face.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jimz 05/21/2018 at 13:32

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The overtones are prominent.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 05/21/2018 at 14:23

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I had a lengthy discussion with Dad about the length of an 8' unstopped pipe; the longest one, the C two ledger lines below the bass clef, concert pitch. How long is that pipe? It varies, I realize, around a theoretical 96 inches. With how much variation? In other words, if you took all the unstopped 8-foot pipes — the longest pipe in every rank — and laid them all side by side, how much variation would there be in actual length? He could not wrap his head around the question and my immediate thought was that he’d have been a difficult professor to have.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën 05/21/2018 at 14:24

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I don’t get it; is he about to get Lucky?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/21/2018 at 16:22

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We played a quintet concert at an elementary school today, and I chatted with the music teacher. He was at UT the same time I was. Anyway, we got to talking about solfège, and about how he never learned it in school but now teaches it and is very good at it. When I was in undergrad, we learned sight singing by using scale degrees, not do-re-mi. In other words, tonic was always 1, no matter which key you were in. If you were singing in F major, then F was 1, G was 2, etc. An A-flat was sung as such, but still called 3. In some versions of solfège, DO is moveable, much like the 1 of the scale degree system. DO simply represents tonic. In other systems, DO is fixed as C, so if you are sining a piece in F major then FA is the tonic, and you sing TE for B-flat instead of TI (B-natural). It’s rather esoteric, hard to learn, and I’m not sure it’s all that useful.

Anyway, the music teacher said that, in his experience, engineers and number people worked much better with numbered scale degrees while musicians and other creative types worked better with solfège. It’s all a matter of how the brain works. I remember having long discussions with you about the physics behind how a three-valve brass instrument is capable of playing a chromatic scale through varying combinations of pipe lengths and overtones. I can see how, for some people, such a discussion would be arcane and inscrutable. Dad is just such a person.

As for the length of the pipe, how much does diameter play in the equation?

TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/23/2018 at 12:30

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Yep. It’s an inversion of an old joke: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=12%20inch%20pianist

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheAnswerIsAlwaysCitroën 05/23/2018 at 19:29

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Right.