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Kanopy – Stream films with your public library or university card
- ct0 4y agoWell i'm off to get a library card now!
- ortusdux 4y agoGrab some books while you are there! My local branch totals up the money you save each year.
- jrochkind1 4y agoMany people who could be watching kanopy via a public library probably don't know it, more marketting would be helpful, from either libraries or kanopy. But... > Stream thousands of films for free, thanks to the generous support of your public library or university Kanopy isn't non-profit is it? Either way, libraries and universities are paying fees to kanopy for licensed access. This is an odd way and potentially misleading way of putting it, "generous support". Will Elsevier start telling users they are getting "free access thanks to the generous support of your university" next, as if universities pay elsevier it's enormous fees out of "generosity"?
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoCertainly true, though presumably Kanopy in turn has to pay license holders for the films they offer? If it turned out they were gouging libraries I'd be incensed, but I would tend to think it's at least as likely the the studios and distribution companies are charging Kanopy a lot.
- jrochkind1 4y agoI'm just saying "generous support" makes sense as a word when it's NPR talking about donors, but is a weird word to describe the payments of your customers for a commercial service. Which makes me think they're trying to sound like they're NPR or something, when they are a commercial service. Universities and libraries don't pay for kanopy out of "generosity" or to "support" it -- it's a commercial service they subscribe to! I have no idea what profit margin Kanopy makes, which is I guess how we'd determine if it was "gouging"? I don't know from "gouging".
- mixmastamyk 4y agoLib pays a fee for each show you watch. Why they limit it.
- dewey 4y agoIf you are curious what kind of films they have available you can check out the listing on JustWatch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/kanopy https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/kanopy One thing to keep in mind is that the selection is dependent on your local library, so the listing is a sum of the subsets but you can get a general idea of the content that's available there. Disclaimer: I work at JustWatch
- brunoqc 4y agoThanks! JustWatch is awesome. Is there any way to know, with JustWatch, which free streaming services are available in Canada?
- dewey 4y ago> Is there any way to know, with JustWatch, which free streaming services are available in Canada? Yes, once you sign up there's a provider selection wizard that allows you to see a list of free services in your selected country. You can then also "batch add" all of them to your providers so they are always selected automatically.
- tyingq 4y ago> the selection is dependent on your local library It VERY much is. Used my community college login, and there was nothing at all, anywhere. My login for a largish state college was a little better, but not much...maybe 50 total items and all in the documentary, gender studies, and one other section. Kanopy should probably work the UI a little for linked accounts to places that have nothing at all to offer...rather than having you create the login, verify an email, etc.
- jacobbudin 4y agoMany library systems do not provide Kanopy to their patrons (such as the New York Public Library), and some participating libraries only offer a subset of the "available" titles. So even if you have access to Kanopy with your library card, you can click "Play" on a title only to discover it's not available to you.
- eltondegeneres 4y agoIt looks like it costs libraries $2 per view and universities $150/year after a film has been viewed once: https://filmquarterly.org/2019/05/03/kanopy-not-just-like-netflix-and-not-free/ https://filmquarterly.org/2019/05/03/kanopy-not-just-like-ne... I generally prefer to walk over to my local library branch and browse their film collection in-person.
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- mmanfrin 4y agoWow, that feels absolutely predatory.
- stinkytaco 4y agoA few years ago, I attempted to work out what a circulation cost us calculating things like our collection budget, staff budget, etc. vs number of circs. It came out to about $2.50 or so. Keep in mind there are some serious limitations; for example, the buildings are a fixed cost and there would need to be a precipitous drop in circulation to lay off staff, but it gave a rough idea of what it costs to buy something, check it out, re-shelve it, etc.
- TylerE 4y agoThat’s higher than I expected. Sounds like it’s not that far from a point where it’d be cheaper to just print a book on demand, mail it, and tell ‘em to just keep it or pass it on.
- cosmie 4y agoAll else being equal, it could very well be logistically cheaper. But to publishers, increasing the volume of printed copies of a given title is absolutely not equal to a library purchasing a single copy and physically handling it in circulation until it naturally degrades to the point of being trashed. Physically printing brand new copies for patrons to keep every time a book was 'checked-out' would pose such a materially large impact on sales volume that publishers flat out wouldn't allow it. Even a perpetual license to loan a single copy of an ebook can cost a library upwards of $100[1], due to potential revenue impact to publishers/authors from having it in circulation in perpetuity without physical deterioration naturally limiting it's lifetime/volume of loans. And the number of simultaneous loans for a given title is generally restricted to the number of individual licenses you've paid for. If that's the case even for ebooks, you can imagine what they'd require to print a title on demand and give it away to a patron forever. [1] https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/a-new-twist-in-ebook-library-licensing-fees/ https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/a-new-twist-i...
- _tom_ 4y agoYeah, kaboom is a complete non-starter. The first thing they do is ask you for you login credentials for the library. "Then, we'll ask you for your public library card number and PIN/password" That's a hard no. Don't give your password to anyone
- dewey 4y agoThis is generally sound advice but it's not a random side project of someone in that case. It's an official partner of the libraries so your suspicion is a bit misplaced.
- shkkmo 4y agoIt's a for profit company that sells its services to libraries. I think suspicion of any company that asks for your password with a third party is warranted. Asking for credentials like this not only teaches bad security practices, but even if Kanopy is trustworthy today, the company could easily be sold to a less trustworthy owner and all the data from your library account siphoned and sold to data brokers.
- gorner 4y agoIt would be safer to do something where the sign-in occurs on the library's website as opposed to Kanopy's. But you should be able to verify on the applicable library website that they have a legitimate partnership with Kanopy and that this is a permitted use of your login credentials, e.g.: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/kanopy-help/ https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/kanopy-help/ and https://www.vaughanpl.info/databases/index/alphabetical/K https://www.vaughanpl.info/databases/index/alphabetical/K
- arafalov 4y agoKanopy redirects you to the library's own website to do the actual sign-in. And re-validates about once-per-month.
- _tom_ 4y agoEdit: that should have said kanopy, not kaboom.
- unfocused 4y agoIf you are in Ottawa, Canada, the Public Library can give you access to: Browse > Online Resources > Watch (streaming video) > Then pick what you want to access: * Access Video on Demand (Educational) * Curio.ca (CBC material, and has teacher related material) * Hoopla (Audiobooks) * Just for Kids * Kanopy (My favourite. Limited to 4 movies a month. * Kanopy For Kids (unlimited) * Medici.tv | EDU (Music e.g. Classical) * Naxos Video Library (Music e.g Classical) * Many newspapers and magazines, all searchable and online! Additional info: Ancestry Online (this is now only possible on the library's computers, and not from home. Used this a lot for finding info on my past relatives, and
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- jrhizor 4y agoI recently started using Kanopy. They have many great movies that aren't available on other paid streaming plans.
- imilk 4y agoBeen using Kanopy for a few years and the quality of the content on there is an order of magnitude better than any other streaming service. In the Seattle area you only get 5 views/month, but that's plenty for me.
- languagehacker 4y agoI'm a big Kanopy fan and love to at least browse what they've got. Another digital library functionality I use is [Libby](https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby), which lets me read library books on my Kindle or Kindle App. Saves me and my wife hundreds of dollars a year on books!
- arafalov 4y agoLibby is - also - awesome. I use it with Kobo (choose on phone, then sync to reader). And they have both books and audiobooks too, so I stopped my Audible subscription for now.
- gedy 4y agoMy son is a voracious reader and Libby is wonderful!
- stinkytaco 4y agoIncidentally, Libby and Kanopy are owned by the same company and they are planning some further film discovery focused enhancements in the Libby app this year.
- gffrd 4y agoWant to second what a great app Libby is: it's like a "management" layer on top of your regular library experience, paired with integrating services seamlessly (libraries, eReaders) that makes it wonderful. Also, some really smart UX/UI decisions in the app. And: I'm super-jaded about this stuff, but find the subtle "delighters" and microinteractions actually helpful and enhance the experience.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoAnother nice thing is that their UX changes actually feel like steps forward. For example if you live in an area with overlapping libraries, the app has gotten much better at unifying the catalog info.
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- arafalov 4y agoWhile most of the views use limited credits, Kanopy has some free titles. They are not often easy to discover, so I wanted to mention it here. The especially interesting free set is (at least through my library), is a nearly full collection of the Greater Courses, a very high quality educational materials. You can see the official source here: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses It is also a good way to find the actual course and then plug it into Kanopy. Finally, searching Kanopy on the mobile phone app, bookmarking and then switching to TV app to actually watch is an easier workflow than trying to type things in TV interface.
- astrolx 4y agoFor people in Sweden, there is a similar service at https://www.cineasterna.com/sv/ https://www.cineasterna.com/sv/ with a usually pretty interesting film selection.
- miiiiiike 4y agoThis is a terrible deal for libraries. Side note: In the mouths of marketers "thoughtful", "intentional", and "purposeful" are null words.
- brylie 4y agoI like Canopy but wish it wouldn't show unavailable movies in my region. I ended up uninstalling the app in frustration after, on several occasions, spending many minutes finding a movie that seemed interesting, only to learn it was region restricted when pressing play.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoPlease don't. Piracy needs you. There are already more great movies/shows than one can watch in a lifetime, and we shouldn't incentivize the business of remakes of remakes of remakes. Public libraries could use their funding for cooler stuff like letting people borrow musical instruments.
- TylerE 4y agoDid you read the article? I know you didn’t, because this is a service offering exactly the kind of content you are bemoaning the lack of.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> Did you read the article? I did not. I don't see an article, just a landing page. > because this is a service offering exactly the kind of content you are bemoaning the lack of. I'm sure the Pirate Bay has a much larger catalog, with much less censorship.
- TylerE 4y agoOk, so you're just trolling, got it. PS: The Pirate Bay (and torrenting in general) is actually terrible for non-mainstream content. Like, look at the audiobook section... it's basically Harry Potter and a lot of "self help" psuedo-cultists.
- EvanAnderson 4y agoKanopy recently revamped their UI and the site has turned to unresponsive garbage for me. The new player glitches frequently and hangs when buffering. The old player wasn't stellar but it wasn't this awful. The old search interface was nice. It was easy to get a list of newly-added items, sorted by date, with thumbnails and metadata. The new UI is just thumbnails in a horizontal "carousel" and you can only see metadata by clicking the thumbnail. I don't know how anybody thought this was a good idea.
- jnsie 4y agoNYPL stopped offering Kanopy a couple of years back > As of July 1, 2019, The New York Public Library will no longer offer cardholders free access to video streaming platform Kanopy. The Library made this decision after a careful and thorough examination of its streaming offerings and priorities. We believe the cost of Kanopy makes it unsustainable for the Library, and that our resources are better utilized purchasing more in-demand collections such as books and e-books. https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-24-2019/statement-about-kanopy https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-24-2019/statem...
- dhosek 4y agoAt the time this was done, the Kanopy model was that when you watched a movie, if you were the first one to watch it from your library, it would trigger an expensive purchase ($80–100, as I recall) after which subsequent viewings would be free. This led to unpredictable costs to the library. I think that they’ve since moved to a pay per view model line Hoopla uses which is why movies will sometimes disappear from the service.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI have Kanopy. They offer some good films, but not the ones that tend to have very large licensing fees, I would guess. People who say "they should just buy the DVD" are imagining that the library can just pay $20 or whatever, and then offer it to as many users as want to watch? I don't think it works that way for libraries. Maybe someone who knows for sure can tell us? I'm guessing that they get the right to loan out the DVD physically but not electronically. I ran the Cinema Club at Google for 10 years, and we made our lawyers happy by always paying "public performance rights" (PPRs) for all our flicks. When you buy a DVD, you get a license for "home viewing." That does not allow you to invite members of the public in to watch. You cannot show it in your bar or restaurant or at a place of business. Maybe you, Fred Hacker, can get away with it, but a large multinational company cannot. When I negotiated PPRs with a film distributor, they always asked these questions: 1) Is the film showing advertised outside your company? 2) Is attendance limited to employees and their guests? 3) How big is the room? (or maybe it was "what's the average attendance?") I didn't look into what public libraries pay for their movies, but I'm pretty sure it's more than you would pay to just buy the DVD.
- airpoint 4y agoYes, exactly this. Purchasing a DVD is priced differently for a) home use only, b) public screening, c) lending/circulating to public I don’t think a library would sign up to Kanopy if it wasn’t somehow more attractive to them over DVDs.
- toast0 4y agoFirst sale doctrine means you can buy a disc for home use and lend it out. Typically, you do public performance with home use discs and a seperately obtained license (but it is possible to rent media with your license, etc).
- toast0 4y ago> Maybe you, Fred Hacker, can get away with it, but a large multinational company cannot. Back when Terry Semel (ex Warner Brothers CEO) was still CEO, Yahoo! would show Oscar screeners in the cafeteria of the best films nominees around that time. Answers to your questions would be 1) No, 2) yes, 3) I dunno, employee cafeteria sized... The organizers said that we were "just in Jerry and David's living room", strongly implying that no public performance rights were obtained, but I dunno. I also don't know if the official screener discs come with appropriate rights.
- gordon_freeman 4y agoOne great benefit of Kanopy is that you can access pretty much entire catalog of Great Courses free with Kanopy here [0]. I love the breadth and depth of Great Courses when I want to learn various topics such as gardening, space exploration, ancient history etc. Just add your multiple library cards and each video or set of videos would use a credit from your library for that month. Once all credits for a given library expire, you can connect Kanopy simply to a different library card with just one click. [0] https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/915 https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/915
- xhkkffbf 4y agoI have to agree about the Great Courses. The ones I've watched have been very high quality, as good as the university courses that the universities will charge several thousand dollars to sit in. (Some fancy schools are hitting $8000 per course these days, at least at the list price before financial "aid" kicks in.) Enjoy them. There's no reason to get poor to get an education.
- HWR_14 4y agoI have no idea why you put quote marks around "aid" in financial aid.
- xhkkffbf 4y agoSome describe the financial aid algorithm as, "Tell us how much money you have. Send it to us." Sure, it can be described as aid. It can also be described as a pricing algorithm designed to squeeze the maximum amount out of the customer.
- mjmsmith 4y agoSome libraries offer movies through Hoopla (https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/movie https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/movie).
- dhosek 4y agoAlthough the quality of the selection on Hoopla tends to be a bit meh (or maybe I’ve already seen the movies they have that I’d want to watch). They have a lot of direct to video knockoff films, like Monster Vs Giant Ape or Shark Storm.
- thebitstick 4y agoLibrarian here. Please utilize the services your public library makes available to you for free! Even virtual usage is enough to convince cities to not lower budgets. We took massive hits to usage during the pandemic lockdowns, but you don't need to always come in to use your library! Look out for Kanopy, Hoopla and Libby and more at your local library!
- throwawaygog6 4y agoWhat is the best way to contact libraries/librarians for API access to their library? I want to build an app which will dump me in random pages of my checkouted books, instead of me gathering energy to do it. I have other features planned. I am stuck with how to interface with my local library, like Libby does. Any ideas ?
- shannifin 4y agoJust call 'em up and ask around, or send an email, I suppose. There's gotta be somebody there who knows. Granted, they're unlikely to just give you special access, but you could at least learn something.
- thebitstick 4y agoLibrarian here. Libraries are just paying for the ability to offer Libby to patrons. Libby then taps into a login API for the ILS a library uses to check if a patron's library card and PIN are tied to an eligible account, and Libby offers its own content based on whatever each library can afford to offer. You would need to offer your own content, ultimately, with the Libby model. Same goes for OverDrive, Hoopla and Kanopy.
- dwighttk 4y agoMy library has been really curtailing the amount I can use Hoopla… Libby is pretty good as long as I can find a less popular book (or wait in line), but Hoopla is almost always already at the daily lending limit.
- autoexec 4y agoKanopy's prvacy policy says they collect data on the people using their service (including GPS coordinates), and they sell/share data with other 3rd parties including allowing Google to collect data on their users. They've also failed to reasonably secure user's data which has resulted in at least one data breach (https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/kanopy-streaming-data-breach/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/kanopy-streaming-...) I haven't looked into Hoopla and Libby's policies yet, but I'd be willing to bet they're doing the same. Librarians have traditionally been very concerned with preserving the right to access content and information of all kinds without being monitored. They fought hard (and lost) against the US government being able to collect lists of the books and media users checked out from the library. It's odd to see a librarian advocate for people to use 3rd party services which will do exactly that along with far more invasive tracking. I'm not just calling you out on this, although some have backed away from these services for various reasons (https://billypenn.com/2021/07/20/free-library-kanopy-movies-streaming-philadelphia-hoopla-discontinued/ https://billypenn.com/2021/07/20/free-library-kanopy-movies-...) libraries around the country have embraced services which can track, censor, and put library user's data, privacy, and safety at risk. They advertise and push these services onto library patrons without informing them of the risks and without any mention of what card holders will be giving up by using them. Leaving it to library users to seek out and read through corporate privacy policies full of legal language and weasel wording seems very wrong to me. In the US, as library card holders, we can't keep our reading lists out of the hands of the state, but we can do more to keep it out of the hands of private for profit companies and data brokers. I'm not saying there's no place for these types of services in libraries (although I'd love to see similar systems developed and operated entirely by library systems instead of 3rd parties), I just wish more libraries were looking out for the privacy of their users and were willing to do more of what they do best: keeping the people informed.
- mataug 4y agoKanopy is awesome, I've rented a bunch of old movies that I wanted to rewatch for free
- graycat 4y agoHere I follow up on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903157 post in this thread about Kanopy. Here I give an introduction to how to start with violin. Why violin? Classical solo music is written mostly for piano or violin, and the ensemble music is heavily dependent on a section of violins. So, violin is very important in music. Now a lot of music can be generated by software on computers, but generating all the expressiveness of a good violin with a good violinist would be a big challenge. So, violins are not likely to be fully replaced by computer generated music. I learned to play violin, enough to make it through parts of some of the most important pieces, the Bach Chaconne, etc. Bach wrote that piece originally for solo violin. E.g., as in: Hilary Hahn 1,458,170 views Aug 15, 2020 Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita for solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjEVKxQCWs A version arranged for piano by Busoni is: Bach, Busoni - Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 - Helene Grimaud (piano) 3,785,361 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9DlMNnpPM After hear the piano version, that the piece in its original form was for violin is a bit amazing. One version of an arrangement for orchestra is: Boston Symphony Orchestra - J.S.Bach Partita in D Minor, Chaconne BWV 1004 124,435 views Apr 4, 2013 Orchestration by Hideo Saito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WpzfAd5gXk That here an orchestra keeps itself busy playing a piece written just for solo violin is even more amazing. Another version for orchestra is: Bach - Stokowski. Chaconne (1950) 214,972 views Jun 4, 2012 L'orchestration de la Chaconne de J.S.Bach par Leopold Stokowski. Enregistré en 1950. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUYq5t-cCM There are also solo organ performances. For more violin music there is: Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Julia Fischer - Performance Edit (Full HD 1080p) 3,567,731 views Jan 17, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-W3lfcVvY with just excellent, world class, nearly uniquely good, cases of (A) what violin can and basically should sound like, (B) violin tone quality and intonation accuracy, (C) musical expression, and (D) from the soloist Julia Fischer examples of how to hold the violin and bow and nearly everything about the left hand, tone quality, intonation, etc. Just excellent. For beginners I would mention that sometimes she has less curve in her left thumb than is usually recommended. For a more modern view of what can be done with violin music there is: Sibelius / Jascha Heifetz, 1960: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 - Walter Hendl, CSO - Complete 184,884 views Jun 1, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpPYat2aRB4 The CD of that music, played directly, not through YouTube, has significantly better sound quality and a convincing example of some of the reasons for the fame of Heifetz. What he does with his violin is beyond any simple explanation. A piano player can hit a key, maybe with a pedal, on a good piano, and that is about all; not at all so for a violinist with a good violin: There are the violin itself, the strings and rosin selected by the violinist, the bow itself and then the tension, adjustable, on the bow hairs, the bow contact area on the strings, the bow pressure and speed, and then the effect of the fingers of the left hand on the strings. It all can make significant differences. Here are some good ways to start to learn to play violin: (1) Listen to some famous violin music, say, on YouTube. So from this, get some understanding of what sounds and music a violin is good for. Sure, concentrate on some of the best violin music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius played by famous violinists, Heifetz, Hahn, Fischer, etc. Get the sheet music, learn the basics of how to read sheet music, and follow along with the YouTube performances. (2) Look carefully at still images of famous violinists holding their violin, e.g., Heifetz, Hahn, especially the Fischer perforamance of The Four Seasons as above. The goal here is to learn how to hold the violin and the bow. This learning is important, crucial, etc. Nearly all good violinists of the last 50 years use a special shoulder rest that clips onto the back of the violin. The one I got was from Sweden. An excellent view is the Fischer video above. (3) Get a few in-person one-on-one beginner lessons in violin. A music school or maybe a music shop should be able to recommend good teachers. Generally you can get really good lessons from a really good professional violinist for not much money. The early lessons are on (a) how to hold the violin and bow, (b) how to change strings, (c) how to tune the violin, (d) how to use the rosin on the bow, (e) how to play in some of the major scales. Below is a "Music Theory 101 for Beginning Violinists". After that and some lessons, the main need is practice. Occasionally return for lessons with a good violinist to check that what you are practicing and learning are correct. You might find, as I did, that it takes 1000+ hours of practice alone to make good use of one lesson of one hour. I recommend the book Ivan Galamian, Principles of Violin Playing & Teaching, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1962. I give more in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903272
- graycat 4y agoMovies that are on DVD, are not among the most popular, and/or are 20+ years old are commonly available for sale, as DVDs, on-line in essentially new condition used for about $2 plus shipping, usually of just a few dollars. If the movie is any good, will want to see it more than once, So, paying a few dollars for one view is a bit too expensive! I looked at their ad for their video introduction to playing violin. As I recall, they want $169 or so for their course. Seems high! In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188 I give an introduction to playing violin.
- imilk 4y agoAre you having a mental episode or is this a strange bot account that I'm replying to?
- graycat 4y agoAs promised in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188 here I give something of some first lessons in violin. Part I === Music Theory 101 for Beginning Violinists == Notes and Pitch Like nearly all music, when a violin makes a sound, that sound as a pitch which in terms of some math, audio engineering, etc., has a pitch, that is, a fundamental frequency. Call that sound a note. Of course, commonly in music, more than one note is being played at once; such music is polyphonic. A standard piano has 88 keys, some are white and some are black. Near the middle of the keyboard is the key middle C, a white key. Its pitch, fundamental frequency, is 261.63 cycles per second, that is, Hertz or Hz. Any two notes, e.g., two notes on piano, define an interval. We will be especially interested in the intervals, we will define below, of a semi-tone, whole tone, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and octave. Thanks to Bach and equal temperment, any two keys on a piano next to each other, two white keys or a black key and a white key, have their pitches separated by a semi-tone. The key with the higher pitch has the frequency of the lower key multiplied by quite accrately the 12th root of 2: 2^(1/12) = 1.05946309436 Well, two keys separated by two semi-tones are separated by a whole-tone. So, the ratios of frequencies should be about 1.05946309436*2 = 1.122,462,048 Two semi-tones form an interval of a whole tone or 2nd with ratio of frequencies 1.05946309436*2 = 1.122,462,048 Two whole tones form an interval of a major 3rd or just a 3rd with ratio of frequencies 1.05946309436*4 = 1.259,921,049 An interval of a 4th is 5 semi-tones so has frequency ratio 1.05946309436*5 = 1.334,839,854,2 A 5th is 7 semi-tones with ratio 1.05946309436*7 = 1.498,307,076,9 6th, 9 semi-tones, ratio 1.05946309436*9 = 1.681,792,830,5 7th, 11 semi-tones, ratio 1.05946309436*11 = 1.887,748,625,4 An 8th, octave, 12 semi-tone for ratio 1.05946309436*12 = 2 no surprise. === Major Keys Suppose we pick a key on the piano and call that our tonic. If we go up whole tone, whole tone, semi-tone, whole tone, whole tone, whole tone, semi-tone, we will have gone up 12 semi-tones, an octave, and played the notes of the major scale on the note we picked as our tonic. So, the notes of a major scale are a tonic and the notes we get going up tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, tone, tone, semi-tone So, from the tonic we get intervals of a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th or octave. Here is some of the importance of a major scale: A large fraction of all of Western music starts on some note selected as the tonic, plays the notes of only the major scale on that tonic, and, to end, returns to the tonic, or nearly so. The "nearly so" can be a source of variety of expression. == Notes and Intervals for Violinists A violin has 4 strings with names, from left to right as seen by the violinist, from lower pitch to higher pitch, G, D, A, E. Middle C as on a piano is on a violin the first C on the G string and, thus, a 4th above the G. The D string is a 5th above the G; the A string is a 5th above the D; and the E string is a 5th above the A. E.g., on a violin, the interval between two adjacent strings is always just a 5th. Simple tuning. So, the A is 9 semi-tones above middle C and has frequency 261.63 * 1.05946309436**9 = 440.007,458,248 and we call that just 440 Hz. So, the way we tune a violin is to get a tuning fork that vibrates at 440 Hz and use it to tune the A string to 440 Hz. Above we saw that a 5th is 7 semi-tones so has ratio 1.05946309436*7 = 1.498,307,076 Gee, that is really close to 3/2. Thus, for any two adjacent strings on a violin, 3 times the fundamental frequency of the string with the lower pitch is the same number as 2 times the fundamental frequency of the string with the higher pitch. That fact is a grand pillar of violin playing. So, let's suppose we use the violin bow to play at the same time on adjacent strings D and A. Suppose we have tuned the A string to 440 Hz. Then the D string should have frequency 2/3rds of 440 2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 and two times the 440 is 880 and is the same as three time the 2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 When we bow both the D and A strings at the same time, we will be able to hear that 880 Hz. Now if the D string frequency was off by a little, say, 294 Hz, then from the D string we will be getting 3*294 = 882 Hz which is high by 2 Hz. From some basic trigonometry, what we will hear is essentially the 880 Hz sound but with its volume comming and going ~2 times a second. We will hear beats. As we adjust the tuning peg on the D string and get the D string frequency to where it belongs at 2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 Hz the beats will go away. So, with no beats, we can tune the D string to quite accurately our desired 2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 Hz Then working similarly, bowing the D and G strings together, we can get the G string tuned quite accurately at a 5th below the D string. Bowing the A string and the E strings together, we can the E string tuned quite accurately to a 5th above the A string. Now our violin is tuned and ready to make music!
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