[CAUT] Re. Link to Young Paper

David Brown David.C.Brown.2 at asu.edu
Fri Jan 19 16:59:25 MST 2007


> Dear Fred-
> 
> MUCH clearer! Thanks so much. You are the man.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi David,
>>     The A4/A6 difference needs to be multiplied by 0.8, to factor out the
>> difference between 1st and 2nd partial and leave the difference between 2nd
>> and 4th partial. The C6/C8 difference needs to be multiplied by 0.2 to
>> factor out the difference between 2nd and 4th partial and leave the
>> difference between 1st and 2nd partial. The difference between 1st and
>> second partial is 1/4 the difference between 2nd and 4th partial (it¹s a
>> logarithmic scale, based on a square of the difference between partial
>> numbers, kind of).
>>     So, if you read A4/A6 as 10 (zero A4 and read its 4th partial at A6 as
>> plus 10 cents), you enter 8 as the A number. When you have calculated the
>> tuning, the number for A4 (the tuning offset, tuning it¹s 4th partial) will
>> be 10. For C6/C8, if the number is 35 (C6 zeroed, its 4th partial at C8 read
>> as plus 35 cents), you enter 7. (Obviously when you enter the number, you
>> have to go to the right note name and octave, and scroll cents up or down).
>>     Is this clearer?
>>     (BTW, David is referring, I believe, to some posts I sent to pianotech
>> around ten years ago, when I was coming to terms with my SAT).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Fred Sturm
>> University of New Mexico
>> 
>>  
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