onlypure tuning

[Alan Forsyth]

Bernhard Stopper asked;

"Have you ever set up the temperament this way? I don´t think so. "

Yes, I have for the last 15 years, and no doubt others would have long
before me. Why do you think that I replied to Alan Barnard's query and said 
from the beginning, and I quote, "Well, at the risk of divulging centuries 
old trade secrets and being banned from the list...."

I also replied to Richard Brekne's post about P12 tuning, saying "Yes, that 
D3 is an extremely important note to get right first time, mainly
because of it's strategic position."

These posts appeared before anyone of us had heard of the "Stopper" tuning 
method.

Your method is nothing new.


AF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Stopper" <b98tu@t-online.de>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: re:onlypure tuning


> David,
>
> I think we speak about different things here when we talk about 3 or 4
> note combinations. You probably mean the (of course common method) to
> judge purity over the stretch range of more than a perfect twelfth.
> My method is not used for tuning stretch (like the Bremmer method with
> sostenuto with three or four notes over two or three or four octaves). I
> use 3-note combinations in one pure twelfth, and set up the complete
> temperament with an octave and an inner lower fifth and a inner outer
> fifth. Have you ever set up the tempereament this way? I don´t think so.
> And this will also lead to a different result than your method does.
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard
>
>
>
>>   Fine, we will see you there.
>> I can prove I taught a student to use octave-fifth
>> 3 and 4 note combinations to judge purity and choose
>> spread 10 years ago. Like to sustain spreads with
>> sostento as well to free up the hand to tune while
>> listening to all sorts of combinations, of which
>> octave-5ths are the most natural and common
>> combinations. I got that trick from David
>> Morgan, now retired, 22 years ago, who got that trick
>> from Peter Dean in Ottawa, 35 years ago.
>>
>>  It is like patenting a colour.
>>  It will not happen.
>>  If it does happen it is wrong, and you can sue me.
>>
>>
>>
>>                         Cheer
>>                         Dave Renaud
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