In a message dated 4/10/00 9:06:54 AM Central Daylight Time, AMeyer2988@AOL.COM writes: << I could never do this as I tune for a lot of Famous people that expect it to be like it was as the last showroom they were in. The Orchestra couldn't handle it. I could just see Neil Sedaka singing in "1/7" and he playes classical also. Alan L. Meyer Assoc. Member Las Vegas, NV PS: Do you tune this way by ear? >> This is what virtually everybody thinks and says, "I could never do that because...(insert any of the many irrational fears or reasons) so I just tune Equal Temperament (ET)". What I am saying is that this notion is without foundation. Many who tune by ear in fact do not really tune ET but don't realize it. Those who depend entirely on an ETD also have no way of knowing how accurate the results are or whether those results are really ET either. I've heard plenty of pianos tuned for professional, public performances that were in a backwards version of an HT, Reverse Well. If an artist and the orchestra can accept Reverse Well, they can accept an HT or a modern HT type temperament. Something tells me that the name itself, 1/7 Comma Meantone, scares you without you having any idea what it actually sounds like. I'll bet that if you actually heard a piano tuned this way played by a professional and no one informed you, you would never recognize the difference. Most people don't. The 1/7 Comma Meantone is difficult to tune accurately by ear. Several years ago, I figured out a way to use the SAT to produce it by preprogramming a specific sequence of "Correction Figures". I tune the octaves by Direct Interval programming. Once I have the program stored, I use it over and over again. There is also a set of FAC Correction Figures for 1/7 Comma Meantone but I never use that approach. Regards, Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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