On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote: > > > Also, I'm thinking this out loud. I've heard that in Europe tuners > prefer to tune more narrow octaves than we do here in the States. Is > this true? If so, I've a sneaking suspicion that what Stopper > might have done is simply expand everything from what is the normal > in Europe. Any chance of this being the case? In other words, > instead of tuning 2:1 or 4:2 octaves for the temperament octave, his > octave is between 4:2 and 6:3. Granted, he would have arrived at > this by mathematical means, and I certainly applaud him for doing so! > > I am not aware of any such tendency. Stretch discussions are rampant here > as well as anywhere else. In any-case Stoppers work on the mathematics > behind this and the basic concept of P-12ths as a tuning priority has > nothing to do with simply expanding on what otherwise is normal. OK. That's great to put my misinformation to rest. > I think everyone agrees that 2:1 octaves are only good at the very top.... > so there is no fundamental disagreement on that point. Nobody I know here in > Europe does that. There IS a good deal of talk about not stretching the > tuning... but these folks who talk about that are not thinking in terms of > coincident partials... and really don't understand that vocabulary at all. > They speak of a "natural stretch" which ends up always equating to some > resultant stretch based on some or another standard octave priority set of > aural tuning tests. One of the sounds on my Yamaha Motif synth/keyboard has a Yamaha S7 (I think that's the model #). The treble on the piano that was recorded is so badly tuned that I just can't play it. It is nasty sounding in the treble. I've thought to record some octaves and post it here, but haven't taken time to do that yet. So I was wondering if that might be the type of tuning that is done outside the States. Hope this didnt get too long... but you put a lot of things on the table for > comment :) > Thanks, Ric. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090308/b528054e/attachment.html>
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