No, I think he wants 19 notes in the octave, I assume to improve sharp/flat intonation. Greg, you say "The basic math involved is explained online". Can you point us to it? Then we may be better able to comment. Scott Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Kanter To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:54 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] nineteen note temperament Sounds like what he's looking for is the perfect 12th (19 semitones) -- hard to imagine that he wants 19 divisions of the octave. | || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason's cell 425 830 1561 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkanter | || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Jim <jim at jimkinnear.com> wrote: Why ??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Hollister To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:07 PM Subject: [pianotech] nineteen note temperament I have a client who wants to experiment with a nineteen note temperament on an old piano. He purchased the piano for this purpose and has no illusions about what such an undertaking would do to it . The basic math involved is explained online but I'm wondering how feasible the whole idea is. My apologies to all scale designers out there. Greg Hollister RPT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090325/97a4332d/attachment.html>
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