Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Mark Westling" <[email protected]> From: "Mark Westling" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.guitar References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bach Lute Suite #4 Lines: 37 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:09:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.106.217.217 X-Complaints-To: [email protected] X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1045937389 68.106.217.217 (Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:09:49 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:09:49 EST Organization: Cox Communications I own this tape recorder. It's is a simple consumer-grade (i.e. not a professional piece of recording gear) Marantz PMD-222 that cost me only about $200 new some 10 years ago. It DOES slow down the tape so one can listen to the music (or in my case my mistakes... <s>) at up to half speed. I'm not sure what this has to do with the issue being discussed as it clearly slows down both the speed of the music AND it's pitch. Mark "Richard Yates" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Matanya Ophee wrote: > >> When a tape moves across a _fixed and stationary_ head, the pitch it > >> produces is directly related to tape speed. But when the head is not > >> fixed, but rather _rotating_, the pitch and the tempo can be altered > >> at will by modulating the head's rate of rotation _and_ the tape > >> speed. Here is for example, a machine that was widely available in > >> the 80s: > >> > >> Http://www.orphee.com/rmcg/ad.jpg > > I still have no opinion about the question of how Parkening recorded. > > The ad cited clearly says (upper right hand corner): "...At half speed > listen to the tune slowly and exactly one octave lower so you can pick out > those fast licks." I see nothing in the ad to suggest that the machine can > slow the tempo without lowering the pitch. (And the toll free number has > only a recorded message!) > > Richard > >