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A friend of mine who is a professional concert violinist once told me this story:
She was in a rehearsal with a professional orchestra and the conductor stopped them, threw down his baton, and yelled “how many times do I have to tell you, Gb is NOT F#!!”
I’ve always thought that was interesting.
So lately I’ve been buying a bunch of violin music to play on mandolin and I came across this in one of the scores:
If it has to be noted that in this case Gb does equal F#, that implies that it might not be obvious to the reader, meaning they might mistakenly think Gb does equal F# right?
I’m not a violinist, I don’t know much about the theory behind this, but I’ve been told there are subtle differences to the way the note is approached and the pitch that sounds. This can also be within the context of the key signature I believe where in one key a certain note may need to sound sharp while in another key the same note may need to sound flat.
She was in a rehearsal with a professional orchestra and the conductor stopped them, threw down his baton, and yelled “how many times do I have to tell you, Gb is NOT F#!!”
I’ve always thought that was interesting.
So lately I’ve been buying a bunch of violin music to play on mandolin and I came across this in one of the scores:
If it has to be noted that in this case Gb does equal F#, that implies that it might not be obvious to the reader, meaning they might mistakenly think Gb does equal F# right?
I’m not a violinist, I don’t know much about the theory behind this, but I’ve been told there are subtle differences to the way the note is approached and the pitch that sounds. This can also be within the context of the key signature I believe where in one key a certain note may need to sound sharp while in another key the same note may need to sound flat.