P12 in Tunelab Pro

[Chris Gregg]

I correspond with Virgil quite regularly.  He recently sent me an article 
he has written called  "The Marvelous Ear."  He talks about the amazing 
ability of the ear that science has not been able to duplicate, that 
combines all the partials of a note in to one sound and pitch when we 
listen to it naturally.
         He also talks about the difference between what the ear ordinarily 
hears and what it can be trained to hear.  The problem that I had as a 
machine tuner was exactly that.  I would try too hard to hear all the 
partials, often missing the obvious.  Tuning should not be that difficult.
         I too use 12ths and octaves in balance and find that it puts the 
color and bloom in to the tuning.

Chris Gregg
At 06:37 AM 6/1/2004, you wrote:nd
>Ric,
>
> > For my part, I take Virgil seriously enough... and by that I mean
> > obviously the fellow is listening to something or he wouldnt get such
> > beautiful tunings.  I choose to believe at present that he is
> > listening for a kind of conglomerate affect that only a multi partial
>based ETD
> > could have a chance of picking up.
>
>I think you're exactly right. It's a combination of the whole that makes
>the difference. There is a "sweet spot" that can be found when the
>octaves are tuned with the already tuned unisons. More volume that adds
>to itself as you tune up and down.
>
> > I have yet to hear a more clearly defined and warm sounding tuning
>then a
> > well executed P 12th tuning.  And I think quite a bit of the reasoning
>for
> > that is the high degree of and near just first degree coincidents in
>primary
> > intervals.... which I would imagine is central to Virgils tunings.
>
>Could very well be. When you achieve P12ths and an aural tuner ends up
>with P12ths, we must be onto the same thing. Your tuning (for which you
>posted the link) sounded really good.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Formsma
>
>
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