At 8:13 PM +0100 8/24/04, Richard Brekne wrote: >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). So you're essentially balancing A3(2) between D3(3) and A4(1). That means that the single octave compass is based on that pure 3:1. Thus far you've been describing aural tuning steps, does this continue for the temperament? If so, would that be a 4ths/5ths or a 3ds/6ths temperament? I'd be much more interested in the latter, but I can already see how it would be executed. >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. Not much different from directly comparing the A4(1) to the F2(5). The latter would take care of the oboist looking for A440 in A4(1). The former would also keep a bassoonist happy who might look for his A440 at D3(3).
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