Re: Microtones through pitch inflexions vs ornamentations. Jazz & Indian Music

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:16:34 -0700, "Marc Sabatella"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]
>There is another category worth mentioning - on wind instruments, there
>are often several fingerings for ostensibly the same note, but the exact
>pitch might differ slightly between them.  Simply by choosing one
>fingering versus another for a given note you can control whether you
>have a flatter or sharper version of that note.
[snip]

I'm a flutist, and I vary the pitch not only by employing different
microtonal fingerings sometimes, but also by the direction in which I
blow. It's very easy for flutists to vary a given fingering by a half
step depending on how far the lip plate is turned in or out, given
enough time.

Michael

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