Hi list... Not being convinced that Virgil Smith is simply misusing established terminology, but perhaps actually trying to describe something most of the rest of us have missed somehow... I have been dinking around with some combinations of tones to sound while listening for octave beats. I would like to have as many of you as is possible try the following and let me know what you hear. Play in appeggio form a fundemental, 4th, 5th, and octave as a "sounding base" for a note three octaves above the fundemental. Try and tune the note by just using this appeggio as a reference. Using a sustenato pedal on a grand is very helpfull, otherwise you have to hold the notes down with the one hand and alternate tuning and hiting the triple octave note with the other. Start with the triple octave note on the flat side and bring it up to where it sounds most "beatless" to the reference appeggio. Tune a whole treble this way trying to "think" natural beats. Perhaps I am a bit off the wall on this one... but something seems to jive with this. I have done several tunings in a row now running through the treble on the first pass this way and the results have been quite nice indeed... I wont say more until I hear back from some of you.... grin... that is if any of you are interested... hehe... -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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