Re: [Harp-L] (no subject)
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- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:12:21 -0700
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The owner's manual for the Stroboconn, shows C4 (261.63 hz) as the C just below A4 (440 hz). I guess that this helped set C4 as middle-C because for many years the Stroboconn was the de-facto pitch standard.
See http://www.mts.net/~smythe/Stroboconn_6T-3.pdf
I suspect that Middle-C got its name as much for its position in the middle of the grand staff as for its position on the piano keyboard. The fact that your electronic keyboard has fewer than 88 keys doesn't change the name or pitch of middle C.
Vern
See:
On Sep 25, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Angus.
>
> The preponderance of music theory sites seem to agree that Middle C is C4.
>
> To be sure, why not ask the Seydel folks whether for them C4 represents Middle C?
>
> Amazing that I've met someone else who has Captain James' Reilly's book. He was the father of classical harmonica virtuoso Tommy Reilly.
>
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> * From: "Aongus MacCana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>
> * Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:56:13 +0100
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> This comes into the category of "Questions I wanted to know, but was ashamed
> to ask". On my recently purchased electronic keyboard Middle C would be C3. However it has come to my notice that on a proper Grand Piano it would be
> C4. In my sixty year old Captain James Reilly Chromatic Harmonica Tutor, I don't
> think that all this C1 and C2 stuff had even been invented. None of my
> stuffy music theory books are much help either. I would not want to be embarrassed by getting a harmonica an octave higher
> than I expected when ordering using Seydel's harmonica configurator. Beannachtai Aongus Mac Cana
>
> Winslow Yerxa
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
> Harmonica Basics For Dummies, ASIN B005KIYPFS
> Blues Harmonica For Dummies, ISBN 978-1-1182-5269-7
> Resident Harmonica Expert, bluesharmonica.com
> Instructor, Jazzschool for Music Study and Performance
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