At 01:41 PM 6/26/98 -0500, I wrote: >> >>Hi, John >> >>I confess that I do something like this. I only use the 3rd-10th test for >>setting the first A, or if beats and inharmonicity muddy the waters enough >>to confuse me. (Sometimes I use the minor third - major 6th test to help >>even things up across the bass-treble break.) Most of the time I tune >>octaves to get the timbre I want, within a fairly beatless range. They >>should match in quality, of course. When I do this the double and triple >>octaves seem to more or less fall into place on a piano of decent string >>length. If you check fourths and fifths (below the pitch you have tuned) >>all the way to the top, your "compass" will be fairly well preserved. >> >>It seems to me that if octaves, fourths and fifths are all sweet and even, >>any very minor alterations in the temperament in the high treble will be >>unimportant; in fact, totally indistinguishable without a machine. >> >>Regards, >> >>Susan >> >>P.S. If you visit a Foucault's Pendulum and watch it for a few hours, your >>head should start spinning in the right direction for the southern >>hemisphere again ... (not sure if I spelled Foucault right, too lazy to >>look it up ... people can gloat if I'm out to lunch ...) >> ---------------------------------------- Ron Nossaman wrote: >Hi Susan, > >That's a pretty good description of what I do. Add double octave checks to >the bottom, and the top, and smile when you present the bill. Very little >razzle-dazzle. > >Re Foucault: Sounds right, but you should be careful about using the 'L' >word around this crowd, what with a national convention coming up, and all. >There are those who are only too willing to misinterpret a comment like that >as an invitation. > >(Pssst, Susan's buying) > > Ron > -------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Ron, Susan will probably buy lunch for any list friends who present themselves in Philomath, Oregon. (My choice of restaurant, though.) Hope you don't all come at once! If they hold the National in Philomath, I'm in big trouble <g>. As it is, you have to catch me first. I'll be 3000 miles away from Providence. Ron, it's very reassuring to hear that you do nearly the same thing I do when tuning octaves. Does anyone else here do it the same way? Regards, Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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