plate tension and temperaments

[Jason Kanter]

See the lower left of the charts on
http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm

Both the Vallotti and the Young have a cumulative tension increase averaging
about 2 cents per note. The Vallotti-Young has a net increase of zero.
Jason
On Feb 16, 2008 8:40 PM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote:

> Julia writes:
>
> << Would tuning a Valotti or Young temperament play havoc on the
> harp/plate tensions? In other words, would I have trouble stablizing a
> piano
> back
> to ET if me (or a customer) did not like it?  >>
>
> I have never had any problems moving among these tunings.  The cumulative
> difference is very small.  What I have run into more often are customers
> that
> tell me that they never want to go back to strict ET, (currently about 90%
> of
> customers).
>
>
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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