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Dominic Pendler dedicated a chapter of his book "The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles" to this chord, and demonstrates quite convincingly that there was a pia
by michael_dorfman 18y ago
Dominic Pendler dedicated a chapter of his book "The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles" to this chord, and demonstrates quite convincingly that there was a piano involved. It's a bit disappointing that the Dalhousie professor doesn't point to the existing literature before claiming to have discovered something novel.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoWhere does this article (the PDF cited by nickb, not the link, which isn't working for me anyway) claim to be doing something novel? It's a cute demonstration of basic physics, more-or-less at the freshman level (although lots of high school students could follow it). It doesn't claim to be anything else. UPDATE: Finally got the blog link to load. While the original paper is modest in its claims, the blog hypes them up and then fails to cite the original paper. This blogger does not earn a cookie.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoThe paper is a little bit hand-wavy about the mathematics of how CDs are sampled, how the Fourier transform works, and how frequencies are converted to semitones. But it does have references which mostly alleviates my desire for rigor :) Once the author has a list of pitches though, the process of assigning pitches to instruments is very well laid-out. The key to locating the piano was that piano strings are hit in triplets, and each string in a triplet is tuned ever so slightly differently. Signal processing was one of my favorite courses in college.