Help with "bad" tuning...need help

[Sarah Fox]

Terry...

I wrote:

> Actually, 415 Hz would be a G#, which would be 100 cents flat (if it were 
> supposed to be an A).

er....

Of course that's what you said...  <shrug>

But the point still stands that a 1 cent interval would be 8 Hz at the next 
octave, and so forth.

Peace,
Sarah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@graphic-fusion.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Help with "bad" tuning...need help


> Hi Terry,
>
>> another way to look at it is "cycles". Each cycle is comprised of 4 
>> cents. So, 100 cents flat, or 1/2 step flat is 25 cycles flat, or A 415.
>
> Actually, 415 Hz would be a G#, which would be 100 cents flat (if it were 
> supposed to be an A).
>
> The correspondence between cents and Hertz (cycles per second) isn't 
> constant.  For higher pitches, each step, half step, and cent increases in 
> number of Hertz.
>
> (Piano Tuning 101.  Reblitz.)
>
> Peace,
> Sarah
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