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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1552556" data-attributes="member: 813">All right, the musician in me won't let this lie. If you've got flatted Gs and sharpened Gs being played together, what you have is noise, not G at the correct pitch*. The flat and sharp concept works better when saying it doesn't matter if your group is in tune, only that your group all plays equally out of tune such that all your Gs are equally flat or sharp. The closer a group comes to this ideal, the more harmonious the sound of their playing.* If the notes are equidistant away from perfect G, then the ear will hear a ghost G but the sound will also be plagued by warbling beats of noise. But this breaks the analogy wide open because it is not true that having a play group with &quot;So rollish they're playing an E&quot; and &quot;So roleish they're playing a Bb&quot; is not a group that is going to mesh well even with the ghost G playing under the ghastly diminished 5th of E and Bb. But that's enough with music theory, I suppose....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 1552556, member: 813"] All right, the musician in me won't let this lie. If you've got flatted Gs and sharpened Gs being played together, what you have is noise, not G at the correct pitch*. The flat and sharp concept works better when saying it doesn't matter if your group is in tune, only that your group all plays equally out of tune such that all your Gs are equally flat or sharp. The closer a group comes to this ideal, the more harmonious the sound of their playing. * If the notes are equidistant away from perfect G, then the ear will hear a ghost G but the sound will also be plagued by warbling beats of noise. But this breaks the analogy wide open because it is not true that having a play group with "So rollish they're playing an E" and "So roleish they're playing a Bb" is not a group that is going to mesh well even with the ghost G playing under the ghastly diminished 5th of E and Bb. But that's enough with music theory, I suppose.... [/QUOTE]

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