---------- > From: Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com> > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Orlando Tuneoff > Date: Thursday, July 24, 1997 1:54 AM > The results of this experiment are gratifying to me. > > > Leslie Bartlett > > lesbart@juno.com > He beat me fair and > >square. However, the scoring was still within the 60-40 split which we > >had both predicted. He received 57%, and I received 43% of the vote. > >Both of my tunings were done in nearly pure 5ths temperament......... What did his fifths sound like?? (just like mine since I tune aurally??) I assume the "nearly pure 5ths temperament" is the (Jim Coleman's) result of the 2.004 octave stretch. I am convinced after two months (at least 7 tries in this temperament) I could present a "nearly pure fifths" temperament for performance in another four months aurally. With machine I assume it could be done in a week or two. Its enough to make me go out an buy one, execpt for budget priorities. With all of the great techonolgical advances in piano manufacture in the last half of this twentieth century, maybe tunings deserve the same technological input. <sigh> While I admit there might be an advantage in machine tunings in ET in the temperament intervals and octave stretching, I still wonder about the unisons, and how the pins are set with machine tuning. And then what to do about variations caused by temperature and environment changes. By ear one decides whether to change differences or not; but what to do, when the machine shows "off" by so much or so little?(and it always does, doesn't it?) Anyhow the "stretching" of the temperament octave from 2.00 to 2.004 to get (near) pure fifths is a very significant, nay, ultra significant suggestion by Jim Coleman. I am really surprised that the "tune off" results were not in his favor using this stretch. Hmm maybe fifths and fourth beating as least as possible and octaves pure as possible is the way to go. At least that's the way I was trained. But I will still investigate the 2.004 octave. Why can't an octave sound like a tempered fifth on the sharp side? Sounds good to me. Richard Moody
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