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Apr 23Liked by Jack Baruth

Tuning systems are one of the most excruciating rabbit holes you can possibly dive down in music, because as a practicing musician (on a string or wind instrument where you have real-time control over intonation) you can't stick with any one of them and have every note sound right. You end up having to do a complicated analysis of what your options might be for any note remote from your tonic, but then just choosing one of those options because you like the way it sounds in context.

This is a long way of saying that sometimes an in-tune B# will be slightly higher than a C and sometimes it won't.

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Apr 22·edited Apr 22Liked by John Marks, Jack Baruth

Awesome! Free education by someone who knows what they're talking about!

also hyperion knight is literally the greatest name ive ever heard in my life

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