{"id":536,"date":"2010-04-26T06:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/?p=536"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:31:24","slug":"still-no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/still-no-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Still No Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of string players, I spend quite a bit of time trying to play in tune. I realized pretty early on that there were lots of factors involved, and in fact it&#8217;s really an endless quest from a purely mathematical standpoint. Over the years some of my colleagues (especially pianists) dismissed my efforts as a little too obsessive (and maybe not all that successful), but a recent article indicates I&#8217;m not so crazy after all. At least about that subject.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/nondivisibeta\/files\/2010\/04\/tuningfork.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/nondivisibeta\/files\/2010\/04\/tuningfork.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>Jan Swafford recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2250793\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">this article<\/a> for Slate, and I found it fascinating. I&#8217;d encourage any musician to read it closely (despite its length) and quit picking on all of us obsessive types who keep trying to play &#8220;in tune&#8221; no matter the cost. Incidentally, M. Swafford also wrote a terrific\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RlgWDbG7ICIC&amp;dq=Jan+Swafford&amp;source=an&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=MVHUS7qSJcT7lweSg-DtDA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=11&amp;ved=0CCoQ6AEwCg\">biography<\/a> of Brahms that I think is also required reading.<\/p>\n<p>And if the article is too much science for you, here&#8217;s a different sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethearts.com\/nondivisibeta\/files\/2010\/04\/Math-Quiz.jpg\">math quiz.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of string players, I spend quite a bit of time trying to play in tune. I realized pretty early on that there were lots of factors involved, and in fact it&#8217;s really an endless quest from a purely mathematical standpoint. Over the years some of my colleagues (especially pianists) dismissed my efforts as a little too obsessive (and maybe not all that successful), but a recent article indicates I&#8217;m not so crazy after all. At least about that subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[50,70],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-violin-stuff","tag-jan-swafford","tag-tuning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidethearts.com\/nondivisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}