Sweet Sound

[Don]

Hi Jim,

I don't know that I would call myself an expert--but I find that 2:1 octaves
give the sweetest possible sound--too bad they can't be used sooner! 4:2 is
less sweet to me but more powerful. 6:3 is downright ornery and crude
sounding if used too high in the treble.


At 10:47 PM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
>To the entire list:
>
>During the aural/visual tuning discussions, we saw the term sweet sound
>as a description of fine aural tuning. Could we have some more comment
>on what makes the aural tuning have its distinctive character? Such things
>as how you prove the octaves, double octaves, tolerance of interval 
>progression, cleanliness of unisons (there was some discussion about having
>not such antiseptic type unisons) and any other specifics which would be
>of interest. I'm not setting anyone up for criticism, but rather to get
>some specifics to be able to better teach aural tuning. I actually teach
>aural tuning more than I do visual tuning (strange as that may seem to 
>some, since I am an AccuTuner dealer). If I can figure out what the real 
>experts are really doing, I might become a better all around aural tuner
>and hence be able to teach others also.
>
>Jim Coleman, Sr.
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
"Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
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