I have to agree with Ric on this. I was meaning to ask Bill B. one day how he gets consistent 12ths while tuning in an unequal temperament. I mean, I do this all the time with a machine; I tune the temperament, and then I custom tune the octaves via direct interval measurement, but other than that, I don't know what to do. When I'm done, I play a four octave spread chromatically from the bottom to the top, and if they all sound good, I'm done. (Any thing that's not right, really stands out that way.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 > | > This (stretching) is only possible because of ET. With 5ths all over the > place in HT's you don't have this option. That is the other thing that > is exasperating about HT's, the tests are either non existant or so > so few it takes 3 times as long and that much more tuning to make > corrections. And that is just in the bearings. > I know a machine makes all of this easier, and perhaps the machine, of > all the ironies, only makes historical tuning possible on modern pianos. > So we are content with what the machine imposes....nah I wouldn't say that. > ---ric > >
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