This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Since most temperaments work well with about 1/2 beat narrow D4-A4 fifth = and likewise with about a 1/2 beat wide D3-D4 octave, if you tuned D3 to A4 absolutely beatless (at A5) you would have two notes (in a two octave temperament) that were dead-on and accounting for inharminicity across = the break in most pianos=20 =20 Then, tuning A3 to A4, and D4 to D3 while checking the fourths and = fifths created among those four notes you'd be pretty confident you had four solidly and rather easily placed notes.=20 =20 Anything wrong with this?=20 =20 Now, find me a similar exercise for nailing down F3 or F4 (NOT = estimating beat rates) and I'd be one excited camper, because after that a two = octave temperament (C3-B4 for the RPT tuning test) would be pretty easy.=20 =20 I know I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, but this business of = esti-placing F3, D3, and A#3 without REALLY knowing their best placement kinda bugs = me. At least with D4 you have 4ths and 5ths to listen to, but dang it if the whole structure doesn't depend too much on getting the "right" width for = the A3-A4 octave and then floating in that F3...=20 =20 Alan R. Barnard=20 Salem, MO=20 =20 PS This is a repost, but I got no takers the first time. Hoping for some now. Sorry if it annoys anyone ...=20 --=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 04/05/2005 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/79/fb/a9/70/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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