<div dir="ltr"><br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">Now it's my turn to be skeptical. "Superb tuning every time on every piano"? That's a lot of pianos!</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">A strict P12th tuning would yield very different tunings on a Bosendorfer and a D. The two pianos wouldn't match, and I suspect the Bosendorfer would sound fairly miserable in the high treble.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">As Fred has pointed out, more stretch is needed in the bass on most pianos.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">And someone else pointed out that a strict P12th tuning might be too wide in the tenor if the inharmonicity is too high there.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">Kent</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Richard Brekne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> Tho the P-12ths approach if strictly executed yields an interesting result that deserves a closer look. Its the first <<stretch>> priority I've ever run into that when strictly followed guarantees a by any standards superb tuning every time on every piano. An ETD can be designed to read a pianos inharmonicity... take advantage of this characteristic with the P-12th tuning and offer such a tuning on each piano leaving the tuner able to simply follow the dial without further ado... again para-inharmonicity aside.  And I say this being a person who has stood firmly rooted in the aural tradition and am on record countless times underlining the need to keep the ears turned on.  I still stand there... but I do see this P-12ths approach for what it is.<br> <br>Cheers<br>RicB<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div>