[Avodah] Shofar Pitch

[Micha Berger]

I just posted:
: I'm not thrilled with this innovation. The whole point of blowing
: shevarim, teru'ah, and shevarim-teru'ah is so that BY all blow the shofar
: identically. By creating new minhagim, this unity of G-d's fanfare is
: again broken, for the first time since at least bayis sheini.

I have to correct this exageration. Shevarim teru'ah binshimah achas
(Ramban, Ritva) vs bishtei neshimos (Rashi, Tosafos), or only the time
for it to have been shetei neshimos (CI's peshat in the above) also
created a small (in terms of accoustical impact) amout of diversity.

Also, the innovation isn't as big as I thought. Looking at the Ramban,
one fints that a shever is itself a broken sound. So there was a maqor
before R' Chaim. (I think original credit for my source list goes to
RMBluke's blog.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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