Tuneoff

[Robert Wilson]

--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Richard Moody wrote:
> 
> > But how can this be determined?  What qualifies a
> good tuning?   How
> > can any tuning be judged, and then its quality be
> shown?   If a better
> > tuning is to mean anything in the music world it
> must be recognized
> > and demonstrated in a way it can be heard by
> players and then
> > hopefully by their listeners.  Since hearing and
> listening is the
> > primary experience of music, the desired standards
> of tuning can only
> > be determined by aural evaluation.
> >
> > A set of aural tests and evaluations should be
> agreed on.  This could
> > be complied through suggestions and then agreed on
> in the comming
> > weeks.
> 
> Virtually any aural test involving beat rates can be
> confirmed by a machine.
> Machines are  not really set up to operate this way,
> but they can be easily
> used in this fashion. If you want to be one hundred
> percent sure that you are
> hearing say 6 beats per second for a given set of
> coincidents.. then just read
> in Hz the two notes at that partial... and subtract
> the lesser value from the
> greater. That will tell you exactly how many beats
> per second there are.
> 
> Its not a big problem to read in all relavant
> partials for all notes and use
> the data to  spit out a beat rates chart showing
> exactly how the piano is
> tuned.
> 
> One at the same time confirms an appropriate curve
> which is also easy to
> confirm in this fashion.
> 
> The result of such an analysys is a completely
> impartial and exact evaluation
> of how the piano is tuned relative to any given set
> of beat rate related
> criteria.
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> 
> 

In the real world the results of our tuning is judged
by the ears of the
listeners, not by machines.  Wonderful as these
machines are, we do
not use them to listen to music - we just use plain
old fashioned ears!

Bob Wilson.



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