more on this temperament thing

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    I have to agree with Ric on this. I was meaning to ask Bill B. one day
how he gets consistent 12ths while tuning in an unequal temperament.
    I mean, I do this all the time with a machine; I tune the temperament,
and then I custom tune the octaves via direct interval measurement, but
other than that, I don't know what to do. When I'm done, I play a four
octave spread chromatically from the bottom to the top, and if they all
sound good, I'm done. (Any thing that's not right, really stands out that
way.)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001
> |
> This (stretching)  is only possible because of ET.  With 5ths all over the
> place in HT's you don't have this option.    That is the other thing that
> is exasperating about HT's, the tests are either non existant or so
> so few it takes 3 times as long and that much more tuning to make
> corrections.  And that is just in the bearings.
>     I know a machine makes all of this easier, and perhaps the machine, of
> all the ironies, only makes historical tuning possible on modern pianos.
> So we are content with what the machine imposes....nah I wouldn't say
that.
>      ---ric
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