Report on Yamaha GB-1 - switching course

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Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:47:11 +0000


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Phil,
Is your temperment only useful for certain pianos, or can one try it on a spinit, or console etc?  

If you have time and wish to e-mail me privately, you can send your temperment.  Don't worry, I won' t publish it.  I'm always curious about how different temperments work.  By the way, what is a 12th chord?  I use 17ths and third tenth test for octaves, but how d oyou describe a 12th?  would that be for example, f3 and Bb4? since f3 and a4 are a tenth?
Marshall

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From: Phil Bondi <phil@philbondi.com> 

> 
> 
> Alan Barnard wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > I did some experimenting and found that it is one of those pianos that 
> > could really benefit from a good aural tuning, 
> 
> Alan, I'm gonna switch gears here for a moment because of your thought 
> about putting an aural tuning on this piano.. 
> 
> This is the type of piano that would benefit from a temperament I have 
> been using for awhile, but have not published because of my lack of time 
> in conversing with respected techs regarding a possibility in similarity: 
> 
> Alan, I don't know where your temperament octave is, but including the 
> troublesome tenor break in the temperament is what my temperament is all 
> about - helping smooth out this area while including it in the overall 
> mix - not just fixing it as you go. 
> 
> My temperament is a "2-octave" temperament from B2 to C5. It is based 
> off of the F3-F4 Temperament that is universally accepted in our 
> community, but I added the other notes to include the tenor break and to 
> include a built-in stretch in the temperament. 
> 
> I call my temperament The 2-Octave Temperament, and its intent is to use 
> the P12 throughout the setting of its bearing. My F3-F4 temperament was 
> based on 4ths and 5ths and test with 3rds-6ths. My modification still 
> includes these steps, but when adding the notes outside of F3-F4, you're 
> listening for a pure 12th when setting that note. 
> 
> I have found this modification to the F3-F4 does alot of good for these 
> types of scales - and also, the better the scale, the sweeter the 
> results. The end result of setting this type of temperament, I will 
> admit, is literally pulling hairs..but I hear the results as sweet, 
> smooth, and an evenness in its stretch since you're building in the 
> stretch when setting the temperament. 
> 
> As soon as I have time to converse with people like Jim Coleman Sr.and 
> Al Sanderson, I won't know if their already published temperaments are 
> similar to mine and it's not worth publishing - but until then, I will 
> thank Dr.Bill Ballard and Rick Brekne for the continued support and 
> understanding in what I am attempting to achieve...a P12 aural 
> temperament including the Tenor Break in the mix of setting the temperament. 
> 
> My apologies for getting off course here, but Alan's comment gave me an 
> opportunity to talk about what I have using to help these types of 
> scales sound better. 
> 
> -Phil Bondi(Fl) 
> 
> 
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