[CAUT] ET vs UET

[David Ilvedson]

You got lucky... '-]

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 4/23/2010 9:59:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] ET vs UET



>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Ed Foote 
>  What do you hear in a 14 cent third?  It must sound out of tune, because there is a 
>lot of color in there. 



>I'll put it another way. During my first tuning lesson, the instructor asked us to see if 
>we could tune a C3-E3 third, which he said should beat approximately 5 bps. I was 
>the only one in the class who correctly set the third and I got it on my first try. I got 
>it right not because I was trying to count 5 bps, but rather because to my ear, the 
>speed of those beats sounded like they were supposed to. Anything slower sounded 
>like the E was flat, and anything faster sounded like it was sharp. I had never even 
>listened to a piano being tuned before that day, much less tried it myself. The 
>extent of my tuning experience up till then was voice, trombone and guitar, though I 
>was fairly used to hacking around on my mother's piano, which she kept regularly 
>tuned because she taught piano.

>Jeff