Peterson 490ST Strobe tuner....good?

[Farrell]

Your post here jogged my memory Richard. When programming/instructing the Verituner on which octave types to look at and weight in various areas of the keyboard, for each of these octave types, one can also dictate the exact beat rate. It really gives an amazing level of control.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <richard.brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: Peterson 490ST Strobe tuner....good?


> A lot of this is written in earlier stuff  that Bradley and I were into just a
> few weeks back. Also there is an old article in the Journal from mid late 70's
> written by Sanderson that is of lots of interest in this regard. I will see if
> I still have that exact copy laying around. There is frequencys and Cents data
> from a finely tuned piano for the middle range of the piano which demonstrates
> quite clearly what goes on to different intervals and their types in this range
> when one interval type is held at a constant beat rate. In his case I believe
> it was the 4:2 octave that was held at a constant wide 0.5 bps.. I have a graph
> available showing the developement of the different octave types from this data
> if anyone is interested
> 
> RicB
> 
> 
>  Charles Neuman wrote:
> 
> >
> >That sounds pretty interesting. Can you elaborate on it a bit? (Or is that
> >in one of your recent emails about TuneLab experiments you've been doing
> >-- I saved those for later...) I'm confused as to what is beating with
> >what here and in general what's going on.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Charles Neuman
> 
> 
> Richard Brekne
> RPT NPTF
> Griegakadamiet UiB
>