At 07:15 PM 1/24/2003 -0700, Kevin wrote: >How high can you hear the fourths while you're tuning? I'll be interested to hear David's reply. I'm not sure that I hear what you think I should (discrete beats per second), but I LISTEN to fourths all the way to the top. I feel like I'm tempering octaves, fifths, and fourths, trying to get all of them as un-obnoxious as possible, but allowing the fourths to move a little more than the fifths, and the fifths a little more than the octave. It seems to give me the sound I want, and it's a fail-safe for both the temperament and the scaling and inharmonicity of the piano. That is, if I goof up on a particular note, the fourth and fifth above will complain about it, so I notice it. In the upper register I do often hear that lower tone when playing both notes of fifths or fourths simultaneously instead of melodically. (Is it a "tap tone?" My book learning is starting to retire from old age and neglect.) For some reason I don't hear it when music is being played. David's turn -- Susan
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