tuning HT's by ear

[Charles Neuman]

Ed Foote wrote:
> ET has a characteristic "sound" to it, that is worth something, and
> reason enough for its use...

Good points. Thanks for getting me back on a more moderate path. I was
overreacting to some previous comments.


> A widely stretched WT can light up a piano for concerto work, and a
> minimally stretched WT can give wonderful mellowness to Mozart
> sonatas, it is a matter of taste.

I look forward to trying it out.

Putting aside the pros and cons of ET and HT's, I need to find an
effective way to put some stretch into my tuning. For now I can keep the
temperament itself with essentially no stretch. But I have to stretch the
upper and lower parts of the piano, at least some. If I just use octaves,
I am risking messing up other intervals in the non-temperament regions.
And I can't use runs of intervals as I can in ET. So I guess I just have
to try out all the intervals in each octave that I tune and make sure
nothing sounds too out of place.

I realize an ETD can be useful here, but I want to work it out aurally.

Charles Neuman