Ragtime/Honky Tonk tuning, was out of tune

Jon Page jonpage@comcast.net
Mon, 17 May 2004 21:18:24 -0400


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 >Do you mean +/- 6 cents? You couldn't go +/- 6 Hz, up and down.

My reply was to
Alan Forsyth's description of the tuning
and how an ETD might facilitate its accomplishment.

+/-6 c @ A4 would produce about 3bps by having the strings
~438.5, 440, 441.5; respectively. (6c being ~1.5bps)

+/-6 Bps would produce about 12 bps (434, 440, 446)
which would be a rather vibrant sounding note.

Weather or not a 12 bps spread @ A4 is desirable
is up for speculation but I will take Alan's word for it.
It seems a little much especially at the top treble.

Has anyone else tried it?

Regards,

Jon Page, piano technician
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
mailto:jonpage@comcast.net
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