Difficulty Hearing Beats While Setting Temperament

[John Ross]

Picky, picky.
You know what she meant.
It could be her spell checker wasn't on.
You could have corrected her direct, instead of on the list.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <mags@magsmusic.net>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Difficulty Hearing Beats While Setting Temperament


> FYI  it's "spinet"
>
> David I.
>
>
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: Maggie Jusiel <mags@magsmusic.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Received: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 03:11:14 +1200 (NZST)
> Subject: Re: Difficulty Hearing Beats While Setting Temperament
>
>
>>I haven't read the other responses you got, but wanted to mention that if
>>it's a spinnet, change pianos.  I practiced on spinnets when I first
>>started, and it was more of a handicap than a help.  When I got to
>>practice on Steinways, Kawais, etc., I could hear the beats quite clearly,
>>and was able to hear the spinnet later.  Of course, it was my difficulty
>>with spinnets that led me to get an ETD, which I still love having.  ;)
>
>>-mags
>
>
>>> I have been trying to set the temperament on my piano and am having
>>> trouble hearing the correct beat rates of the intervals. The problem is
>>> that the beats are so weak they are hardly perceptible. I have strip 
>>> muted
>>> the piano and was able to tune A49 on the piano to the A440 tuning fork 
>>> by
>>> comparing the beat rate of the note and the fork with F21. I am now 
>>> trying
>>> to tune the other notes within the temperament octave and get the beat
>>> rates of the F-A, A-C#, C#-F and F-A to gradually increase from 7 bps to
>>> 14 bps, but they are very difficult to hear. What can be done to hear 
>>> the
>>> beats more clearly? I have been studying tuning for several months now,
>>> but the beats of the intervals are still difficult to hear. I don't have
>>> much trouble with unisons as I can hear the beats more distinctly, and 
>>> the
>>> improvement in the quality of the note when I reach the pure state is 
>>> very
>>> noticeable.
>>>
>>> I have an SAT III tuning device that enables me to tune the piano very
>>> well, and to check my aural tuning, but I want to be able to tune the
>>> piano completely by ear so that I can eventually pass the PTG
>>> examinations. Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>> Robert Finley
>
>
>>Maggie Jusiel
>>Piano Tuner
>>Winds & Strings Teacher
>>PO Box 1234
>>Athens, WV  24712-1234
>>(304)952-8615
>><mags@magsmusic.net>
>><http://www.magsmusic.net>
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