Octave Stretch in other Lands

[Marcel Carey]

Greetings,

The beauty of aural tuning is that you actually listen to the complete and
complex sound of individual notes and octaves. The ear can make the actual
decision of favoring predominent partial to make the most pleasing music.
With VTD, you actually have to guess what the most predominent and important
partial of each notes are.

Now I use RCT and am quite happy with it. But some days, on good
instruments, I just like to go back in time and find out that I actually
save some by just using my brain an aural skills as a computer.

Just my 2 cents,

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC
-----Message d'origine-----
De : A440A@AOL.COM <A440A@AOL.COM>
À : pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date : 5 mars, 1999 20:25
Objet : Re: Re: Octave Stretch in other Lands


>Jim writes:
>>Isn't a 2:1 octave one octave, and a 4:2 a double octave, and a 6:3 a
triple
>>octave?
>>If so, then doesn't that render moot your question and if not so, then
>>I would like to know the answer to the question you asked also :-)
>
>Greetings,
>     This is not the first time I have sent an unclear message!  (:?)}}
>     What I meant is that it is not possible to have two notes, one octave
>apart, tuned so that all coincident partials will match with a Just ratio,
>i.e. if you have the fundamental of the upper note exactly on the 2nd
partial
>of the lower( what I mean by a 2:1 octave),  then the fourth and the 2nd
>partials are not going to be the same, nor the 6th and 3rd.  To match these
>up, the octave must be widened until you have what you want.
>
>Regards,
>Ed Foote
>