Some violin players (including some teachers) make the mistake of thinking that they should be able to tune their violin to the piano right after you tune it. You might be able to satisfy them if you make sure your temperament octave has a little bit of a roll in it. When you stretch the octave, all the intervals within it will also be stretched - making your 5ths more pure. (of course it will make the 4ths wider as well, but I haven't had any complaints about 4ths.) You might also try putting a little extra stretch in the 5ths that violin players tune to: G3-D4, D4-A4. A4-E5. This will create a bit of a well-temperament, but it may be more satisfying to the violinist. If it is a small piano, the G3-D4 5th can be quite distorted due to inharmonicity: It can be wide at the 3:2 level and still sound irritatingly narrow at the 6:4 level. I usually try to push the G down as much as possible without the octave becoming too busy. On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 7:12 AM, CHARLES BECKER <cbeckercpt at verizon.net>wrote: > My customer does not like the way the 4ths and 5ths sound when tuned to > equal temperment. I have experienced this with other violin players. What > are they hearing or not hearing that causes this issue? Any suggestions for > an alternate tuning temperament? > > Thanks in advance. > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100731/fd0aa1ac/attachment.htm>
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