User:ArrowHead294

Hi! I'm primarily a music theorist and singer nowadays, though most of my musical training is in classical piano and cello.

My musical experience

Piano and keyboard: 2004–2017 (K–12), 2022–present

Cello: 2009–2017 (Grades 5–12)

Voice: 2020–present

Voice type: Baritone / bass-baritone

Chest voice: E♭2 to E4 (77–340 Hz)

Can go down to D2 (72–74 Hz) if needed

Can belt up to ~G4 (390–400 Hz), A♭4 (415–425 Hz) on occasion

Mixed voice: C4–C5 (260–540 Hz)

Falsetto and head voice: D4 to E♭5 (290–630 Hz)

Can reach E5 (655–665 Hz) and F5 (695–705 Hz)

I've also been told I have "perfect pitch" since I acquired the ability to recognise notes (in A = 440 Hz and 12edo) from a young age, though I have grown increasingly disdainful towards the terms "perfect pitch" and "absolute pitch" since late 2022 since it locked me into 12edo and anything outside 12edo with A = 440 Hz sounded "wrong" to me.

Favourite tunings

Main interests within Western music

Most Western musicians only know 12edo, and my musical background is mainly classical, so my main interests have been in Pythagorean and meantone. I'm quite active in church despite being non-religious, and most of the alternative tunings I introduce to others are flatter-than-12 meantones as they're relatively easy to get into.

• Quarter tones (24edo) as an extension of 12edo with good approximations of the no-sevens 11- and 13-odd limit
• Sixth tones (36edo) as an extension of 12edo with very accurate harmonic sevenths
• 19edo as ⅓-comma meantone
• 31edo as ¼-comma meantone, which is probably the most practical alternative tuning for most non-classical Western musicians nowadays
• 43edo as ⅕-comma meantone, currently my favourite alternative tuning for post-Mediǣval Western music
• 53edo as an extended Pythagorean tuning

Beyond traditional Western music

For xenharmony and music beyond meantone:

• 27edo as a Superpyth system; I prefer it to 22edo mainly because 22edo's 5-limit major and minor thirds sound jarring to me
• 46edo for higher harmonic possibilities involving the 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics, just like 43edo