I've always been a little mystified by the debate of M3s *vs.* 4ths and 5ths. I thought the point of tuning a temperament via 4ths and 5ths was to make it easier to get to the contiguous M3s as a finished product - ? That's how I was taught, anyway, and I have recently transitioned from an F3 to F4 temperament to F3-A4 starting on A4 instead of C4. Not much changed in my process, I still make 4ths and 5ths my basis with the goal being contiguous M3s. I regularly check my intervals (and octaves) with several different tests, and my tunings take me anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on the piano and circumstance. But then again, I still haven't bucked up to take my RPT exam, so what I'm doing might suck ;) Cheers, Holly Quigley associate member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070905/78c6f3ea/attachment.html
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