Strike Tone not Yielding same beatspeed

[Kent Swafford]

On 5/31/01 3:56 AM, "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> wrote:

> The F2--G#2 in music theoery is not a minor third but some kind of
> second, perhaps augmented?

The subject here is piano tuning theory, not music theory. In piano tuner
lingo, the piano's black keys are sharps; there are no flats - at least,
that is the way I was taught.

>If the minor 3rd is a 6/5 ratio does this
> mean the augmented second is a 7:6?

No, the interval that is is three half steps wide, whatever it is called,
has two sets of coincident partials, 6:5 and 7:6.

> The interval G#2--D#5 is if not
> mistaken, 6--1 ratio.  what then is the F2--D#5 ratio.?

7:1.

Kent