Hey, Aural Gurus ...

[Don]

Hi Alan,

I'll bite.

Use a temperament like the Sanderson two octave. You can find it here:

http://www.accu-tuner.com/SATIIImanual/apf.html

If you do, your question is moot.

At 09:23 PM 4/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>   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    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.  
> Anything wrong with  this?    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.    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...    Alan R. Barnard  Salem, MO     got no takers the first time.
>Hoping for  some now. Sorry if it annoys anyone  ...  
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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