Hearing beats

[Bernhard Stopper]

Ric wrote:
>You will
>find that quickly seting the 18th and the 6th to the same beat rate all
>the way up to C8 will allow you to simply tweak your octave to taste on
>your second pass.

so I do Ric.
And i bet in a couple of years everybody will only tune in this way because
1. it sounds much better
2. it´s much faster to do, even faster with the help of an ETD.

regards,

Bernhard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Hearing beats


> jason kanter wrote:
>
> >There is no 3:1 octave. That's a twelfth. You can set D3 to A4 as a 3:1
> >interval, but for A3 you are limited to 2:1 or 4:2 or even 6:3.
> >
> >
> >
> Jason my boy !!...
>
> I typically do a 3:1  D3(3)--A4(1)  tested with a F2(5) and then set
> A3(2) to a position slightly narrow of D3(3) and slightly wide of
> A4(1).  I find it very easy to set D3(3) to an A440 fork using the 6th
> below test as an aid. Then setting A4(1) to that same is a snap. Which
> yeilds me an A4(1) at 440.
>
> As long as I am on about the Maj6th test for a P 12th... I might add
> that for ear tuners that is a really quick way of running through the
> treble... even if you are primarilly an octave types tuner.  You will
> find that quickly seting the 18th and the 6th to the same beat rate all
> the way up to C8 will allow you to simply tweak your octave to taste on
> your second pass.
>
> Personally.. I tweek now so that when running chromatics 12ths, 20ths,
> triple, double and single octaves.. there is no single beat rate that
> stands out as being slower or much faster then the previous one.
> Typically I find a strong tendancyt to let the 12th go very slightly
> narrow at about G7.  I end up most of the time with C8 at about 28-32
> cents +-
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
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