Some very interesting feedback on The Drones Episode from our resident physicist, Greg, plus tips from Ron……and Kingsized! The links mentioned herein include:

Tone Generator: http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/

Audacity (great recording software….and FREE): http://audacity.sourceforge.net

And this we received from Ron:

“You may find these two websites helpful with the supporting calculations you may need to make:

<http://www.birdsoft.demon.co.uk/music/notecalc.htm> is a Frequency to Note calculator.  Put in a frequency and it will provide the nearest note and the offset in cents (440Hz = A4).

<http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/notes.html> goes the other way giving a table for finding the frequency of a given note….While looking for a better tuner, I came across a better source of data for generating drones: Go to the Peterson Tuner website (click here) and click on Tuning Library, then select Cents to Frequency Chart from the pull down menu. A programmable table is generated which gives note to frequency (and vice versa) translations. This includes offsets by a number of cents, which eases building intervals with just temperament, etc. You can also go directly to the page at:

http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?category=15

Peterson Tuners uses Adobe Flash for the display of this table.”

Thanks to Ron, Greg, and all of you for the great feedback. Students, believe me: even a cursory exploration of these resources, I believe, will improve your overall sound production and intonation. It will open your ears, and perhaps the creative mind.

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