> Oops, I sent that sucker halfway done) > >Does this mean you will always hear beats in an octave? > > > > > Not always, everywhere. There will be some decisions to be made between > C52 and C64, inre which octave you want nice, the single, double, or triple. > You can't tune them all with no beating and still put the last C88 in line, > without everything except the single octaves sounding flat. > Regards, > Ed Foote OK, I was hoping that is what you were referring to , as I find that too. The damn things get flat to the tonic, or sharp to each other. Still I think the challange is to get the triple octaves from c4 up sounding solid. (And that is only one octave actually) A lot of romantic and Jazz is played octave in each hand an octave apart. The first few bars of the Greig Concerto for example. The originator of the Jim Coleman Pure Fifth Stretched Octave Temperamnet showed, (thank you Jim) such octaves sounding outstanding, but the octave c4--c5 by design is extra stetched from the get go. So I cooked up some spread sheets using 12th root of 2.01-2.1. That's not exactly pure fifths in concept, but I wanted to see what it looks like on paper. And there are numbers begging to be fed into a machine, which I don't have. I do have Tunelab, but as with any machine, there is a learning curve. The spread sheets give beat tables though, but there is that learning curve for aural tuning of new temps. Ric Stretchinit
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