I feel compelled to respond to this thread. I love experimenting with tuning methods. Often trying(for better or worse) new things; playing with many techniques including ghosting, difference tones, 3,4 and 5 note combinations using the sostenuto pedal, to come up with a best blend of various chordal combinations of octaves and 5ths over an octave, or several octave spread. .... etc. etc. etc. Finding a most pure spot compromise of 3 notes sounded together over a given spread is nothing new. Do it all the time. It disturbs me that someone would patent a tuning method. It is like patenting a musical cord, it is not possible, because it is not right. It is basic nature. I reserve the right to play any combination of 2,3,4 notes together in any pattern I want, and tune them as pure as I want or push them outside pure as much as I want at anytime, anywhere. In the same way as playing jazz I do not have to be careful what notes I play in what order in a jazz solo. Also I will never be careful about what 3 note combinations not to use while tuning. Just the concept of patenting a tuning method I find bizarre and somewhat repulsive. The nature of sound dictates basic harmony and tuning, it is not man's invention, it is natural. It is like try to patent water. Nobody invented it, it was always there, basic. I do not see this as something new. Name any 3 note pattern using octaves and 5ths, I have done it. Even over several octaves using sostenuto. ........Perhaps I should patent sosteuto pedal use sustaining large 3 note spreads while tuning.......every piano could be equipped with a sensor on the sostenuto and have to be activated while tuning....5 cents a touch. I know I am getting bazaar myself, and cynical. In a musical culture spanning centuries where so much has been contributed freely for the love of the art, ..patent an instrument, a song, but not the nature of sound itself. I tune every which way...and nobody will put up a wall to any method. Cheers David Renaud ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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