I think you have a good point here. I've never tuned an unequal temperament without first investigating what it's supposed to sound like aurally. Going strictly by the numbers does not guarantee that the numbers actually are correct or that the technician has produced a correct temperament. Only by knowing, for example, that a particular third is supposed to be 3 beats, or no beats does a person know that the temperament is properly rendered. In other words, it may look like a duck and it may walk like a duck, but it may not sound like a duck. Richard West, quack tuner On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:27 AM, David Love wrote: > Learning to do them aurally does provide quite a challenge though > and an ETD that offers HT programming is definitely a plus if not a > must. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090130/5aaa8055/attachment.html>
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