<HTML>In a message dated 12/29/02 12:07:29 AM Central Standard Time, bigda@gte.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Thank you, Bill, for your effort.  I'm fascinatd by this, and i will try it.  If I have problems---and I may, because I'm a kinesthetic learner---it would be 100 times easier for me to watch you do it than to read instructions---I'l let you know. David A.</BLOCKQUOTE> I have my first analysis back but even before I got it, I had thought of some ways to tighten it up a little to make it even closer to the Thomas Young.  As it is, it still meets the description of what it has been called and has none of those dreaded imbalances. >From my perspective, it couldn't be easier but I sometimes wonder what people may find difficult about it?  I have been doing this since the late 1980's, so for me, it is a part of what I do routinely.  Some of the feedback I used to get about the EBVT were questions about the "temporarily tune" stuff.  People would say, "Why *temporarily* tune?  Why not just *tune*?" The whole process is very easy.  After setting an initial 3rd, a series of 4ths & 5ths is tuned perfectly pure.  That's easy isn't it? You don't have to guess or count beats.  Then, the "temporarily tune" steps set up a dilemma which is solved by making pairs of 4ths & 5ths beat exactly the same as each other, using your ear as a judge, not by *counting* beats, just making an equal compromise.  When tuning ET, you can use some of these same techniques and I have often thought of making up "An Equal Beating Method for Tuning ET" but I know it would become quite cumbersome because instead of making intervals match each other, you have to create slight *mismatches*.  Owen Jorgensen says that it was indeed the misunderstanding between Equal Beating and Equal Temperament which held up the perfection of ET for so long. Stand by for a refinement which makes my scheme even easier and  a nearly identical match to the Thomas Young. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A></HTML>