"Where's the Beat?"

kam@flash.net kam@flash.net
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:49:15 -0600


>...What is the difference between beats and natural beats?...

&

>...Didn't all of us tuners have to train our ears and
>brains to *focus* on  those countable beats so we
>can be scientific about our work?...
>Howard S. Rosen, RPT

Howard, List,

I remember reading that article and this is what I surmised.

The countable beats, to which you mention, is listening to the relationship
when comparing two specific partials.

The natural beats, to which Virgil refers, is listening to the cumulative
relationship of all the partials without specifically isolating any one of
them.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell!

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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