On 3/1/05 3:33 PM, "Porritt, David" <dporritt@mail.smu.edu> wrote: > My stock tuning for a D has C6 at 5.19 cents, C7 16.26, and C8 at 43.90. > I've used that tuning on our recital D for years so I obviously don't > think it's over stretched. FWIW, and to let you folks know there is some radical out there doing much crazier stretching, my standard recital D tuning has C8 at 63 cents (C6 at 4.4, C7 at 18 - IOW a rapid increase of stretch from C6 up. C6 down is fairly conservative). It's been like that for at least four years (crept up gradually until then). I have never ever had a complaint of too much stretch. I _have_ had complaints of too little, but not recently. So I figure I've hit it about right <g>. _I_ like the way it sounds, either playing it or listening in the audience. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico
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