[Avodah] Shofar Pitch

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:50:51PM -0400, Michael Kopinsky wrote:
: I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing.  You seem to be talking
: about changing the number of kolos, or the length of the kolos.  RZF does
: not change those, but only the pitch during the kol - he starts with the low
: note, goes to the harmonic, and goes back to the low note.

: In RZF's case, I don't think it's a brisker thing.  The way I heard it, it's
: just that he thinks that sounds more like a shever or crying than straight
: notes without the pitch modulation.

Then we could be talking about different things. The Brisker thing is
one kol that goes up at the end, followed with almost no break by a
single beat of a kol at the original pitch. So it can sound like
down-up-down.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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