On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 08:22 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > Kent, Ed, > Don't the same inharmonicity problems exist in setting an ET with an > ETD? How far off is "off", and what's the tolerance for "beatless", > and the penalty for deviation? And won't the tuner listen to the > results and adjust if and as necessary like any good ETD tuner - > assuming some knowledge of what intervals are beatless, equal beating, > nearly equal beating, etc? I guess I'm asking how fine a practical > hair is being split here. As Rick Baldassin says, "Excellent questions! Don't ask them again!" Aren't these the questions every tuner has to answer for him/herself? Some customers require more hairsplitting than others. Some pianos allow for more hairsplitting than others. At the risk of walking into a minefield here, there are ETD-based temperaments out there for which no guidelines for the absolute / relative beating, "beatless, equal beating, nearly equal beating" intervals are available. So the tuner _cannot_ listen and adjust as necessary. Not a good thing, IMO. Kent S
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