Hi Susan. Just wanted to pipe in a quick reply to your post... Fred, you've written several excellent posts in this thread, which I've saved. I think I've cruised through most of this thread, at least superficially, but I haven't seen one question addressed: I agree. Fred is up to his usual par and more. Which way of tuning is more enjoyable? I'd say a hybrid form. I do a quick basis with Tunelab with my P-12ths template. This puts me always very close to where my end tuning wants to be. Then I let the piano tell my ears where the refinements want to be. On that note... I've found that the ofte declared negligible inharmonicity, i.e. the lack of significant para-inharmonicity in the treble (up to and including the top octave) is not the case. There is more to take concern to up there then we have been led to believe. One other bit... we often talk of classic false beats as being pretty much unique to the upper treble...from say around C5 upwards. I've found that a more correct statement is to say that the frequency range of the fundamentals from C5 upwards can exhibit classic false beats... but that these can be found in any note which has a coincident in that range.... which is to say the rest of the piano. Off the point a bit but I wanted to throw that in. Cheers RicB
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