SAT & RCT

[Don]

Hi Bill,

You are misquoting me--I never wrote the passage below. I may in point of
fact agree with it--but I decline authorship.

At 09:46 AM 6/9/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/8/98 11:26:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
drose@dlcwest.com
>writes:
>
><< >> > - The ear hears each note individually so is able to adjust to the
> small inharmonicity differences from note to note, but is not nearly as
> accurate at consistently setting octaves to the same stretch amount from
> note to note. Variations of a few 10ths of a cent are normal.
> >> >
> >> > So, if the aural tuner were perfectly accurate (a big if) the tuning
> would measure a little uneven and would look bumpy if your charted it. The
> electronic tuning charts perfectly smoothly, but doesn't take into account
> the minute variations in inharmonicity from string to string. >>
>
>Here I am again, back from Louisiana and will have some tuning insights to
>tell later but I saw what was going on here and had to comment in the little
>time I had this morning.
>
>It seems that I will always be the odd man out in these discussions but in my
>opinion, "smooth" octaves are no more a desired goal or trait of a really
good
>tuning than a "smooth" temperament is.
>
>In Louisiana, I worked with an accordian maker on tuning his instruments.  I
>was able to convince him that he was not necessarily bound into the
>restrictions that everyoner  else in his profession felt bound, just because
>they were conventional.  I pointed out to him the difference between what is
>satisfying musically (which is what really counts) and what is satisfying
to a
>"TOONER" (you folks started it,I didn't),  which does NOT matter at all.
>
>While most of the gerneral public and even the professional pianists may
>accept this ultimate compromise that is now the general concensus, it still
>does not mean it is the best nor that everyone will like it the best.  My
>temperaments and octaves are "rough" compared to most of the rest on the List
>and my octaves are quite often stretched to the hilt but are always
>justifiable and not nearly stretched as much as some truly irrational
>stretching that I have heard.
>
>I tune for a musically satisfying sound, not for what might be considered an
>ideal compromise.  To me, the RPT Exam Master Tuning sounds as bland as
>Velveeta cheese tastes and really would ruin most any music played with it.
>
>Bill Bremmer RPT
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>
Regards, Don