Yes, but...unfortunately, in the material Tim Farley sent me, he also refers to his offsets as the Jean Baptiste Romeiu 1/7 Syntonic comma meantone...presumably that is what he told Serkin. Perhaps someday we can arrange a "tune-off" for Serkin, giving him, say, a dozen pianos with different temperaments. More important, Serkin's manager needs to be informed of the confusion, and asked to provide a chart of offsets, not a name with multiple interpretations. Ed Sutton ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Bousel To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:57 PM Subject: [SPAM]Re: [CAUT] mean tone tuning- help! First, thank you to everyone who responded to this. I thought I would send along, for comparison, the chart below comparing three different sets of figures that have come through on this thread. I chose these three because all three sources have had direct contact with Peter Serkin. David says he used the numbers listed just last month. Don says he used his numbers a couple of times within the past year and Tim's are apparently the numbers used that originally convinced Peter Serkin that he wanted this temperament. Both David and Don say that Serkin was very happy with their tuning. Don and Tim only vary at F# and G. David's are clearly quite different. The source for David's numbers is: http://www.rollingball.com/TemperamentsFrames.htm You have to click on "Meantone" at the top and then choose Romieu. David says specifically that Serkin uses the Romieu temperament. I don't know how the chart will show up so I'm also attaching the Excel file Aaron ------------------------------------------ Aaron Bousel Registered Piano Technician, Piano Technicians Guild abousel at comcast.net (413) 253-3846 (voice & fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090225/f664f7b4/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 117436 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090225/f664f7b4/attachment-0001.jpe>
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