EBVT Offsets (compilation)

[Kent Swafford]

On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 08:22 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Kent, Ed,
> Don't the same inharmonicity problems exist in setting an ET with an 
> ETD? How far off is "off", and what's the tolerance for "beatless", 
> and the penalty for deviation? And won't the tuner listen to the 
> results and adjust if and as necessary like any good ETD tuner - 
> assuming some knowledge of what intervals are beatless, equal beating, 
> nearly equal beating, etc? I guess I'm asking how fine a practical 
> hair is being split here.

As Rick Baldassin says, "Excellent questions! Don't ask them again!"

Aren't these the questions every tuner has to answer for him/herself? 
Some customers require more hairsplitting than others. Some pianos 
allow for more hairsplitting than others.

At the risk of walking into a minefield here, there are ETD-based 
temperaments out there for which no guidelines for the absolute / 
relative beating, "beatless, equal beating, nearly equal beating" 
intervals are available. So the tuner _cannot_ listen and adjust as 
necessary. Not a good thing, IMO.

Kent S