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by jjslocum3 642 days ago
I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."
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Stuff like that always bugs me because since it's not immediately verifiable it just feels like flexing for no reason
Showing off their ear for detail in a way
But what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?
or what if it's 2 full tones and one quarter semitone flat? that's what I'm saying the dude flexing his perfect pitch doesn't know what the original intent was. Maybe that brand of bell is well known for that specific microtonal pitch
440 or 442Hz?