Sorry, but I just thought of something that made me laugh.

[bloke]

My changed the radio station in the kitchen, and I turned it on hearing someone do some kind of rappy thing, except it had a melody with heavy Auto-Tune - which made the singer sound robotic. ...You know what I'm talking about.

Some of us know that auto-tune is adjustable, and the way to get that effect is to make it severe.

I don't know what made me think of it, but I thought about someone playing the second movement of the Vaughan Williams with the auto-tune turned up that much, and how it would sound. I started laughing.

I apologize if it doesn't make any of you laugh.

[DonO.]

Not sure if this is on topic or off, but Auto Tune should be banned. Worst invention ever. Singers today (and I use the term loosely) don’t seem to realize how stupid they sound when using it. The way for a singer to sing in tune naturally is EAR TRAINING. Take lessons from a professional. Practice drill and more practice. I’m no great singer but I can sing on pitch at least because I had ear training when I was much younger.

I have always held the view that every musician should be able to sing on pitch. Not only the singers, but instrumentalists, too. Why? Nothing better for knowing how it should sound than being able to sing it out loud (or to yourself, in your head). It even comes up in instrumental music occasionally. This past season our community band played a “modern” piece that required some of us to sing “ahs” in a certain place. I was surprised how many of our members had trouble with this at first.

[bloke]

Maybe it doesn't hurt if it's done by hand, which can be done by an engineer. That makes the engineer become a co-artist.

There just aren't that many Lani Halls (remarkable pitch singers) around.

A somewhat well-known Met. Opera singer from my hometown...when she would sing around here, some some of the accompaning nstrumentalists would quietly imitate her singing... above pitch.

We are so accustomed to hearing the bass range flat, as the most common instrument that we hear is a piano. Brass players - and that certainly includes tuba players - tend to play sharp, so - when a tuba is above pitch - it really sounds sharp to patrons' ears, due to them being accustomed to piano tuning. I really strive to not play sharp.

[Mary Ann]

So, if a tuba quartet is tuning with just intonation, where the beats go away, does that mean the bottom part is flat, or sharp, or something else?

[windshieldbug]

So, if a tuba quartet is tuning with just intonation, where the beats go away, does that mean the bottom part is flat, or sharp, or something else?

“bottom” being relative, relative to what??

[Mary Ann]

Well, assuming you have two tubas and two euphs, that would be the tuba 2 part, which can get down in the lower reaches of the piano keyboard.