'C' fork users only (inferior 'A' fork users need not apply)

[Paul]

Dan
My mentor taught me this method about 25 years ago. He referred to it as the
"Faust Method". Jon Travis outlines this method in his book "Guide To
Restringing". It opens the doors to a lot of checks, and once mastered you
can set a temperament very quickly. Normally my temperament octave starts
with C3 and ends on D#3. The poorly scaled pianos may give you some grief,
but in those cases, I estimate the F3-C4 interval and set the temperament
starting with F3. It will render a very nice tuning. If you have trouble
getting started, let me know.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: thepianoarts <thepianoarts@home.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: 'C' fork users only (inferior 'A' fork users need not apply)


>
>
>  Just kidding you overly sensitive 'A' fork users!
>
>  Any "C" fork users care to exchange temperment checks and patterns etc?
I
>  have been trying to evolve the 'Up three thirds, down a fifth, up two
> thirds" etc. temperment taught from the Aubrey Willis course 25 years ago.
> Anyone on the list using this pattern? BTW, after 25 years with the fork,
I
> moved to the Sanderson Accu-fork. It has some advantages. Their beat-rater
> is also a nice tool for checking contigious thirds.
>
> Dan Reed
>  Dallas chapter
>