<div>See the lower left of the charts on <a href="http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm" target="_blank">http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Both the Vallotti and the Young have a cumulative tension increase averaging about 2 cents per note. The Vallotti-Young has a net increase of zero.<br></div> <div>Jason<br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2008 8:40 PM, <<a href="mailto:A440A@aol.com" target="_blank">A440A@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div>Julia writes:<br><br><< Would tuning a Valotti or Young temperament play havoc on the<br>harp/plate tensions? In other words, would I have trouble stablizing a piano<br>back<br>to ET if me (or a customer) did not like it?  >><br> <br></div>I have never had any problems moving among these tunings.  The cumulative<br>difference is very small.  What I have run into more often are customers that<br>tell me that they never want to go back to strict ET, (currently about 90% of<br> customers).<br><br><br><br>Ed Foote RPT<br><a href="http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html</a><br><a href="http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html" target="_blank">www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</a><br>  <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on<br>AOL Living.<BR><br>(<a href="http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)" target="_blank">http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)</a></HTML><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>|  ||  |||  ||  |||  ||  |||  ||  |||  ||  |||  ||  |||  ||  |||<br>        jason's cell 425 830 1561