<HTML>In a message dated 9/10/02 11:43:00 AM Central Daylight Time, drwoodwind@hotmail.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Yes, maybe a 'tempest in a teapot' but interesting to some.  :) </BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, thanks for hanging in there.  Not being an experienced user of the FAC program is the principal reason I never wanted to be the one who attempted to come up with these correction figures and I've often said that.  But in face of the credibility assault from Ed Foote, one does what he has to do. I'm home for lunch from a usual day of tuning 5 pianos.  Today, I have decided to tune entirely by ear but I have been taking readings of the intervals which have been accused of being imbalanced.  So far, after 3 pianos, no imbalances at all. I firmly believe that the EBVT is a a temperament, not just a vague idea.  It is much like any one of the temperaments found in Owen Jorgensen's "Handbook" for the Equal Beating Temperaments.  All of these specify, as the EBVT does, some pure intervals and for others to beat exactly the same as another which has been created as the result of constructing previous intervals. I have heard that Fred Tremper once calculated the correction figures for these but I don't know of anyone who has ever tried to confirm or refute that these figures actually work.  I, for one, would not be interested in doing that but I do wonder if people would run into the same problems which those who have worked on the EBVT figures have. As for tolerance of Equal Beating intervals, it has always been my working assumption that comparing rapidly beating intervals affords a very high degree of precision, about the highest which can be expected in aural tuning.  The F2-A4 and F2-Fork test being a prime example:  1 cent or under error expected. I'll publish the results of my 5 pianos all tuned aurally in EBVT and *none* with any imbalances expected at the end of the day.  I suspect that the primary reason these imbalances have occurred is the setting of the first interval, F3-A3 a little too fast.  Getting started with even that slight error and replicating it will certainly cause that to happen.  There is a whole list of errors which can cause the imbalance which I will also publish later. I'd agree with what Paul Bailey has said and I've talked to him about this too.  A high incidence of Equal Beating in the temperament and its extensions across the keyboard creates amazing clarity and pleasing resonance; that "stunning" sound that people aspire to.  I just don't believe you'll get that by dialing in a few numbers for any one of these milder published temperaments, particularly the "Best" Broadwood. "Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech. 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>