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<DIV>dave<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR
***********<BR><BR>On 12/16/00 at 9:58 AM Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a message dated 12/16/00 8:42:31 AM
Central Standard Time, A440A@AOL.COM <BR>writes: <BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE"><<The problem I see with what you did is that it is purely
arbitrary. >> <BR><BR> No, that is not what
arbitrary means. <BR>arbitrary adj. <BR>1. Determined by chance, whim, or
impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or <BR>principle.
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR><BR>It still sounds arbitrary to me. You may have
had a reason to do it, the <BR>program that you have previously stated you
"would stake your professional <BR>reputation on" suddenly became inadequate
so you picked some numbers <BR>arbitrarily that you thought might make an
improvement. Of course, you may <BR>have been somewhat lucky that the
horseshoe you threw landed fairly near the <BR>stake. <BR><BR>I seem to
recall that many people have criticized both my octaves and <BR>temperament
without ever hearing them too. I also know that musicians don't
<BR>usually complain about a piano tuning unless it is unusually intolerable.
<BR><BR>I'd bet any day of the week that I can determine octaves precisely and
<BR>consistently either by ear or using the SAT and be done with the tuning
much <BR>faster than using methods which require the dialing in of so many
deviations <BR>of deviations. I wonder if I might even be done entirely
before you or <BR>anyone else trying to do what you describe has finished
programming. <BR><BR>I, for one, would never enter either a professional or
casual situation and <BR>attempt to tune a piano by applying someone's
calculation for a temperament <BR>to an FAC program and then simply boost the
7th octave by a shot in the dark, <BR>arbitrary amount. It's not the way
I think about tuning at all. <BR><BR></FONT><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial
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