“Stunning”, a bit overstated but what I mean is that as one ascends or descends through the scale the tendency is to change the interval relationships of fourths and fifths. Fifths tend to lose their slight narrowness and get more perfect and fourths then must become a bit wider. While we may intend to keep the same beat rates with fourths and fifths in practice that’s not what happens. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 9:23 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Do fourths beat faster? David: The level of opacity of this comment is stunning. What on earth do you mean? Paul ps I still owe you a picture of that fret file ;-) In a message dated 2/6/2009 11:07:07 P.M. Central Standard Time, davidlovepianos at comcast.net writes: Just to play devil’s advocate here, and with all due respect to the skill level of those involved in this discussion, sometimes there is a difference in perception between what we think we do and what we actually do. That’s all I want to say. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:28 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Do fourths beat faster? Well said! And ye got there afore me! :-) Paul In a message dated 2/6/2009 9:55:33 P.M. Central Standard Time, pianotech at a440piano.net writes: SNIP > We don't need to discuss how many tunings we have all performed to justify > our knowledge. > > Regards > Brian Neither do we need to discuss how many theories and calculations we can/have/should be doing. You've got the math worked out Brian, that's clear. But before you continue shouting out against those who don't do mathematical calculations every time they tune a third/fourth/fifth or whatever, consider that there are many ways to achieve fine tunings. I assure you, whatever chasm there is between you and David A. in communication, and in your chosen thought processes when tuning, when you listen to one of his tunings (I have) you'll simply have to accept that his methodology works. David is an excellent technician and an excellent tuner, and however he thinks about how he does what he does is largely irrelevant. Fantastic tunings can be obtained by technicians with a dizzying range of theoretical knowledge. You like the numbers, others may not, but the results speak. As author Piers Anthony once said to a class of english students (paraphrasing here) "I no more need to know the names of all the parts of speech to use them properly than I need to know the names of all the parts of the human body to use them properly." And yes, we can break this analogy down, but the sentiment is interesting food for thought. So, ease up on the ranting and ponder that it really might not be so linear (the tuning process, that is). William R. Monroe _____ Great <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;211531132;33070124;e> Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. _____ Great <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;211531132;33070124;e> Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090206/06b2776a/attachment-0001.html>
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