How about the unadvertised dumb question, do I use the deviations starting at A49 and go up to G#60 or do I use what I would consider the "temperament octave?" If I just have that correct I can manage the rest by ear. Sorry, I don't have time to buy a VT. Having slept on this I now think double and halve is wrong since that would be for cycles per second not cents but maybe the answer lies in putting the temperament onto a page in memory and then applying multi representative stretching techniques using the Double Octave Beat Control as I usually do with my SAT-not your problem Jon. But maybe someone else out there... My confusion is compounded by Lehman's suggestion that a C centered tuning (which is supposedly the great discovery contained within the Bach doodles on the title page of the WTC) begins at middle C40 instead of C52 and all his indications either aurally or ETD are based there. Then he goes on to say that he gives indications for an "A" centered tuning because that is the sacred tuning note of orchestras and many piano tuners which he never spells out, so I infer he means A49 but I suppose it could be A37. Who knows? not me. Thanks for taking the time with this but perhaps it's becoming a more universal thing as Ric B suggests. I am alot like you Jon in that I am doing this just for result and while this may be an opportunity to really dig in and learn something about that which I have been avoiding, I'd really rather just get the thing tuned and go home for some jelly beans. I can appreciate key color but since it is a miniscule part of the available spectrum these days I'm sure Equal Temperament will remain my and most everyone else's tuning of choice. Again the color of jelly beans is much more important... Thanks, Chris
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