Stretch Vs.Temperament, (was Beat Rates)

[Richard Moody]

> > Only when I test the intervals as a tuner does can I hear the
> > difference.
>
> Don't you think this is something you can learn to hear ?
... But
> isn't listing to beatrates and their net effect within chords
> pretty much the same kind of thing ?
>
The music goes so fast I can't hear the beats.
Every interval even the unison can go so far before it effects
music.  Look at the octave stretching discussions.
    Once I  had a player piano with the tuning getting towards
horrible when I sat down to play it myself.   When it played a
roll it sounded in much better tune.
    I had to standby for a lingering sound check, the piano player
was getting some passages right.  It sounded in good tune to me.
When he got up he said, "you have your work cut out".   Yes, it
was
much worse than sounded.    So I have always had a hard time
hearing out of tuneness in piano music.   But I sure enjoy the
music after
it has been tuned.

    ---ric  (the "i" stands for I suppose if there are two rics I
could be ricm, or since I was the first then ric I or ric 1 ; ) )