To be fair Kent.... the "piano tuner theory" you describe below is more an ET pianotuner theory then it is a tuner theory in general. We still have real old fashioned ge-hoere tuners over here... rare but they exist. You know the fellows that dont play two notes at once.. I even met one of these guys onces. They check there tuned notes by playing different chords... mostly triads of various (major and minor in their different inversions) At least this fellow did. He talked about commas and such and had this Comma Wheel gadget. For this fellow talk of augmented seconds differeing from a minor third was very real indeed. just to be fair... Kent Swafford wrote: > 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 -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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