Hello, to anyone still with us :) Bill wrote: I'm never going to go around tuning the EBVT by using correction figures but I do understand nevertheless, the importance of coming up with them. This will come about as soon as I am sure of them and I hope you'll try them out. >From what I can see so far, however, both the FAC program and any >correction figures applied to them will yield slightly different results >from piano to piano. <snip> Only as each instrument has its own voice. The thing to remember at this point, is that you are a beginner when it comes to using a machine to calculate a tuning. There has been a lot written about the SAT on how to adjust for a better matching tunings, but success comes with experimentation, and experience. The payoff for those that choose to use the machines is consistancy. Once you know how to adjust your machine,(It pays to select a flexible one.) a Broadwood will be a Broadwood, no matter on which piano it is set. Using both the bearing plans, and any published numbers, (old, or on your website)techs have come up with many different sets of offsets. This points to a lack of consistancy of setting this temperament on differing instruments. It may turn out that the EBVT is not a temperament at all, but a process you go through to reach a certain sound that you are listening for. If you find in your research that you can't come up with consistant offsets from piano to piano, I'd look into developing a new vocabulary to communicate what is going on when you tune. It may be one of those things that is more art than science, and therefore harder to pass on to others. A first step might be to nail down how close your range is for equal beating. (yes, checked against a machine) Paul Bailey has been quietly making waves in his community tuning Well temperaments with *true* equal beating tendancies. (spreadsheet born, aurally tested) Just like ET, (if it's not equal it ain't ET)it really does make a difference in the 'resonance' to really 'nail' some equal beating intervals. Especially because he's working with "stronger" temperaments. In addition, he's using a Verituner, which makes it easier to get the tuning to match almost any piano. Yes, maybe a 'tempest in a teapot' but interesting to some. :) Ron Koval _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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