HD-100 Harmony Director.Yamaha Corporation “Yamaha” redirects here. For other uses, see Yamaha (disambiguation). The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社 of America, Band & Orchestral Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; (714) 522-9011; infostation@yamaha.com; www.yamaha.com/band; $1,149. The HD-100 Harmony Director from the Yamaha Band & Orchestral Division, is designed to help young vocalists and instrumentalists understand how individual notes fit into a chord. The HD-100 Harmony Director is a 49-key tuning device that resembles a small keyboard. It teaches students to tune the notes within actual chords, providing an aid to improve intonation, harmony and overall sound. The HD-100's 10-preset temperaments include pure, major and minor scales, meantone and Pythagorean. It will tune every note to the right pitch for any given scale and key, and each of the 12 notes of the octave can be assigned its own pitch and volume settings. They can then be saved to user memory, and a transposition transposition /trans·po·si·tion/ (trans?po-zish´un) 1. displacement of a viscus to the opposite side. 2. slider A block of material that holds the read/write head of a magnetic disk. See flying head. can change the key allowing for greater compatibility with various instruments. A built-in tuner allows for the precise tuning of instruments via the built-in microphone, or through an external microphone. Also featured on the HD-100 are eight different quality voices--organ, harpsichord harpsichord, stringed musical instrument played from a keyboard. Its strings, two or more to a note, are plucked by quills or jacks. The harpsichord originated in the 14th cent. and by the 16th cent. Venice was the center of its manufacture. , flute, oboe oboe (ō`bō, ō`boi) [Ital., from Fr. hautbois] or hautboy (ō`boi, hō`–), woodwind instrument of conical bore, its mouthpiece having a double reed. , clarinet, trumpet, horn and strings. In addition, a built-in metronome metronome (mĕ`trənōm'), in music, originally pyramid-shaped clockwork mechanism to indicate the exact tempo in which a work is to be performed. It has a double pendulum whose pace can be altered by sliding the upper weight up or down. can accommodate standard and odd-metered rhythms and be programmed for future time changes. The HD-100 also allows for any tempo to be "tapped" in, to ensure rhythmic precision. When playing a song with a key change, the HD-100 will automatically detect the change and alter the pitches of each note to fit the new key. The MIDI-compatible HD-100 features easy-to-read LED and LCD displays and a data entry dial to make input quick and easy. For more information, contact Yamaha Corporation of America. |
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