[TPIN] electromechanicals (was Re: How the Tonight Show...)

[Michael Anderson]

I've been watching this one closely even though I'm in Atlanta at the
Festival.

Please either bring this one back to DIRECT trumpet content or move it to
private email

Thanks

MA-TPIN ADMIN


> From: Gene Ellis <gcellis at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:44:40 -0500
> To: Keith Reynolds <trumpet1 at nycap.rr.com>, Mike Boyd <mb at psaparts.co.uk>
> Cc: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] electromechanicals  (was Re: How the Tonight  Show...)
> 
> Mike - maybe you can explain why all the open tones of the string family
> form a well know scale form.
> Gene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Reynolds" <trumpet1 at nycap.rr.com>
> To: "Mike Boyd" <mb at psaparts.co.uk>
> Cc: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] electromechanicals (was Re: How the Tonight Show...)
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Boyd wrote:
>>> William Graham wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yes....Well, the original discussion was about a "fretted violin", and I
>>>> immediately thought of a mandolin, because it is the closest thing to a
>>>> fretted violin I can think of. (In the same way that a guitar is kind of
>>>> a fretted cello)
>>> 
>>> That's an odd comment.  Other than just size I would say that a cello and
>>> a violin are very similar, as are a mandolin and a guitar (and aa are a
>>> tenor horn and a cornet).  Far more so than a cello is to a guitar or a
>>> violin is to a mandolin.
>>> 
>>  Well, a mandolin and a violin are both tuned in 5ths and share the same
>> pitch (G,D,A,E) and are about the same size.  I guess that makes it a
>> fretted violin with double strings.
>> 
>> The guitar and mandolin both have frets, but the guitar is tuned in 4ths
>> (with one 3rd) - which makes it much easier to play.
>> Keith Reynolds
>>