{"id":267,"date":"2020-11-26T21:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrunderwood.co.uk\/dev\/?p=267"},"modified":"2020-11-26T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:56:16","slug":"tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have always had a pretty laissez faire attitude to instrument tuning. A lot of what I like to create musically falls amongst the in-between notes and, depending on the application, I can at times struggle to see what benefit there is to constraining an instrument to equal temperament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to that the fact that equal temperament is a fudge that many instruments have to be shoehorned into and I&#8217;m always interested to explore and understand what other options exist, and why. The trouble is the technical understanding required is often a bit beyond me. My lack of formal training is a blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find the history and mathematics of all this fascinating though, so it was great to watch <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/lectures-and-events\/maths-sound\" target=\"_blank\">this Gresham College lecture<\/a> by Professor Sarah Hart recently, even if the evolution and tuning compromises did leave me chuckling to myself at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must revisit this subject in a more formal (maybe practical) way in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always had a pretty laissez faire attitude to instrument tuning. A lot of what I like to create musically falls amongst the in-between notes and, depending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}