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

[Mark Schecter]

Hope this helps. But some of yours are better.

-Mark

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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.
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>> 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.
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