Tuning styles with octaves

[Bec and John]

Hi Terry,

That's interesting, thanks for that. The technician I studied with 
actually didn't go into explanations of such things that I can recall, 
just said what to listen for and how to tune it.

I have to say though, much of my tuning inspiration has come from 
tuners on various recordings. Such as Rubenstein's 1967 recording of 
Chopin's Nocturnes - fabulous tuning, excellent sound to the recording 
as well. I have a debate with myself about whether that or the Werner 
Haas Debussy recordings for Phillips are my favourite.

- John


> when the high treble and low bass octaves are tuned "beatless", they 
> ARE stretched, albeit not to a great degree; in the extreme treble, 
> because the ear often "hears" even slightly stretched octaves as 
> "flat", some techs (I know) stretch high C to +75c or more! I don't.
>
>
>  Terry Peterson