Huh?? was RE: pRCT got ears again...

[Alan Barnard]

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> [Original Message]
> From: Mark Schecter <schecter at pacbell.net>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Date: 05/04/2006 12:11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Huh?? was RE: pRCT got ears again...
>
> Hi, John.
>
> Sorry, but that's not correct. If the fifth above the bottom note of a 
> 4:2 octave is made less contracted, approaching just, the fourth below 
> the top note will also get slower, as it contracts from its expanded 
> state toward just.
>
> For example, if the octave is F3-F4, and the fifth above F3 is C4, the 
> act of lowering C4 to contract the fifth, expands the fourth C4-F4. 
> Contrariwise, if you then raise C4 to slow the fifth F3-C4, so doing 
> also contracts the expanded fourth C4-F4 toward just, or beatless. It's 
> easier to picture than to say. HTH.
>
> -Mark
>
> John M. Formsma wrote:
> > How do you get 4ths and 5ths to both be slower? In equal temperament, a
> > slower 5th means a faster 4th.