Joseph Garrett wrote: > Gentlemen/Ladies, > The possiblility of testing, using an HT, is quite possible. However, the > "Rub", is: you would have to have 3 RPTs capable of tuning the piano in a > specific HT. Just finding 3 RPTs in the same location, that are CTEs AND > knowledgable in HTs, is, in my opinion a tough nut to crack. > Just my thoughts on the subject, having done a few exams in ET. <G> > Regards, > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) Yep.. you hit the nail on the nose... or what was that phrase.... But there IS an alternative to the present testing proceedure that is very workable, just as fair, probably ten times easier to arrange and administer, and quite transferable to the ET testing procedure. I mean all praise to the guys and gals that went so to THEEE degree out of their way to come up with a fair testing proceedure....... but frankly, in this day of 2 gigahz laptops it is unneccessarily cumbersom. Any temperament can easily be looked at as a recipe giving beat rates for various intervals. And any tuning can easily be measured to see if it conforms to any given recipe. Actually it would seem to me that any RPT should be able to sit down with any beat rate recipe for a temperament and execute a decent example of that tuning. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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