YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO TUNE YOUR GUITAR?

You know how long it takes to tune your guitar? You look for that elusive confluence of absolute pitch relative to the other strings, right? Well the Eiffel Tower was not designed for the purity of its musical tones.

So is one dead-in-the-water if writing music for those sounds? In this short demonstration Joseph Bertolozzi explains how a given surface may contain multiple pitches and how the ear perceives them when they are played against other notes…its “contextuality.”