<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> >>I also get confused when people say = wider or narrower, wider or narrower than what.<<  <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> beatless, or precise whole-number ratios, such = as 6:5, 4:3, 3:2, etc.  <o:p></o:p> <<What is the = standard.>>  <o:p></o:p> There is none, as far as stretch is concerned; = it varies from piano to piano.  <o:p></o:p> >>  For me, the slowly rolling beats = of > the fourths and the barely rolling beats of the fifths are = much easier to > hear accurately than = thirds/sixths/tenths/seventeenths; they take you to the > same place in ET, and the fourths and fifths = are much more precise.  <o:p></o:p> That’s great, for you, but for most, I think = it’s easier to tell if a third or sixth is beating 5 rather than 6 beats per second = than it is to tell if a fifth is beating 0.5 or 0.7 bps.     = --David Nereson, RPT</DIV></BODY></HTML>