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style="margin:0px;">a slight correction is required (correction in bold
letters) , sorry for sending too fast.</p><p
style="margin:0px;">regards,</p><br /><p
style="margin:0px;">Bernhard</p><p style="margin:0px;"><br
/>-----Original Message-----<br />Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:46:06
+0200<br />Subject: Re: The Acme A1 Temperament<br />From:
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style="MARGIN: 0px" style="margin:0px;">Ed, i was not precise with my
words...</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px" style="margin:0px;">I meant the open
tuned strings, they are fix and not tuned with fifths from historic
keyboard temperaments, <strong>but usually tuned with pure
fifths</strong>.</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0px" style="margin:0px;">So
i should have better said: every string quartet tune quasi ET on the
open strings (slightly narrow fifths, probably quasi P12) to avoid the
pythagorean third of the cello c and the violin <strong>e, wich will
otherwise result when using pure fifths</strong>.</p><br /><p
style="MARGIN: 0px" style="margin:0px;">By doing so, the very sharp
pytahgorean third between the cello c and the violin e is transformed
into a milder</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px" style="margin:0px;">quasi P12
tempered third.</p><br style="MARGIN: 0px" /><p style="MARGIN: 0px"
style="margin:0px;">The string quartet has two violins (gdae), one
viola(cgda) and a cello(cgda)</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0px"
style="margin:0px;">The cello and the violin have the same tuning, but
with the cello a twelfth lower than the violin.</p><p style="MARGIN:
0px" style="margin:0px;">The cello and the viola have the same tuning,
but with the cello an octave lower than the
<strong>viola</strong>.</p><br style="MARGIN: 0px" /><p style="MARGIN:
0px" style="margin:0px;">regards,</p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0px"
style="margin:0px;">Bernhard Stopper</p><p style="MARGIN: 0px"
style="margin:0px;"><br />-----Original Message-----<br />Date: Sun, 01
Jul 2007 02:09:48 +0200<br />Subject: Re: The Acme A1 Temperament<br
/>From: A440A@aol.com<br />To: pianotech@ptg.org<br /><br />Bernard
writes:<br /><br /><< every<br /><br />string quartet plays quasi
ET (slightly narrow fifths, probably quasi<br /><br />P12) to avoid the
pythagorean third of the cello C and the violin >><br /><br />I
disagree. I have sat in many a performance, and rehearsal, with my SAT
in <br />my lap. Intonation in a good string quartet is anything but
ET, and in fact, <br />I have had a number of string players mention
how everything changes when <br />they have to play with a piano. There
are no pure thirds in an ET piano, but you <br />will hear a lot of them
in a good quartet. <br /> Horn players know that they must play the E
differently, depending on <br />what key they are in. This doesn't
indicate ET is in use in the orchestra...<br /><br />Regards, <br /><br
/>Ed Foote RPT <br />http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html<br
/>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html<br
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