tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37251208.post6168813262810817814..comments2023-06-30T08:20:03.067-07:00Comments on Infused Knowledge: The barbershop overtone, and other music stuffRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06624317806947588259noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37251208.post-70344765755627258562009-04-29T14:11:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:11:00.000-07:00I read that the barbershop overtone has a differen...I read that the barbershop overtone has a different cause than all the others phenomena that are also called overtones. Anyway, I want to try that piano thing! Thanks for sharing your experience with singing in the choir.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06624317806947588259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37251208.post-20208556244827138662009-04-28T00:56:00.000-07:002009-04-28T00:56:00.000-07:00I knew about overtones in general, but not how the...I knew about overtones in general, but not how they use them in barbershop. Cool :)<br /><br />(If you want to play with overtones, and you have a piano, very softly push in a key so that the damper is lifted off the string but the hammer doesn't hit, then hit a tone an octave (or octave+fifth(+fourth(+etc.))) lower. You will hear the tone you pushed in singing along.<br /><br />I think what you said about those texts just not being worth all the musical effort is <I>very</I> well-put. I will have to remember that.<br /><br />As someone who sang in church choirs for, gulp, 15 years now (and one month, and 23 days), I can relate to the idea of being "tied up". I am lucky to sing in a church with a very good music director who has several high-level choirs lined up, so none of them sings every Sunday. This also gives us time, theoretically, to rehearse and go a bit above and beyond the standard. (His biggest insult to us is "you sound like a parish choir!")<br /><br />Maybe there's a church like that somewhere around, although it most probably would not be TLM.<br /><br />As a final word of warning: singing in the choir changes your participation with Mass. It can either reduce or improve it. It took me 14 years to get to the point where it improves it, but that can also be an age thing. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com