David Andersen wrote: > >"Two contiguous musical intervals are intervals that touch > >each other, in other words, share the note in the middle. > >Tests that use contiguous intervals are easy to learn and > >use, and tell the tuner explicitly which notes are at fault > >and what to do to correct them....... > Yowee zowee, Ric.......that is SO cool: we're both right. > I appreciate your effort on this, and your passion about tuning...... > David A Thanks in return Dave... you through me a loop with that steady 4ths thing... just never thought about it and took it for granted that of course they should get progressively faster. And maybe they do to some small degree on some pianos. I suppose I shoulda thought about this given that I already have run into that 5ths can go from narrow to wide as you get up there in the treble. Rick Baldersins book "On Pitch!" has this neat explanation of what happens to differing octave types if you decide to hold one type at a constant beat rate. I want to also find out what happens to differing intervals and their types when any particular interval type is held constant. I suppose we really should know all this stuff in and out when it comes down to it. Like this 12ths tuning,,,,, I should already know exactly how the beat rates of all the basic intervals and their types develope up and down the scale.... but noooooo...grin.. I gotta scratch my head and get headaches and sit and try and get Excel to cooperate and the like. Ah well... a little bit more every day. Thanks again for jarring me around Dave. RicB
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