half step / whole step (was Re: Help with "bad" tuning...need help

Sarah Fox sarah@graphic-fusion.com
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:50:42 -0500


And if an out-to-lunch tuner showed up on the wrong day and tuned some old 
beater 100 cents flat (i.e. without doing a pitch raise), the tuning might 
be a day late and a dollar short. :-)

Peace,
Sarah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith McGavern" <kam544@gbronline.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:00 PM
Subject: half step / whole step (was Re: Help with "bad" tuning...need help


> At 3:30 PM -0600 12/14/04, James Grebe wrote:
>>1/2 step is 50% or cents
>>1 step low is 100% or cents.
>
> Nope.
>
> The gist is:
>
>    one half (1/2) step, say from C4 to either B3 or C#4, is 100 cents.
>
>    one (1) whole step, say from C4 to either Bb3 or D4, is 200 cents.
>
> Keith
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> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA
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