Hi David: Perhaps I misunderstood you in the beginning. I tho't you were originally discussing the Pure 5ths temperament which I wrote about in a recent Journal. Apparently you are talking about plain ordinary equal temperament. Your statement in that case is true as shown below. What I was talking about was a system of tuning pure 5ths, not tempered 5ths, and octaves which have 1 bps or more to accommodate the pure 5ths temperament, which in turn gives even more stretch to the succeeding octaves. Please forgive me for jumping to an erroneous conclusion as far as your comments were concerned. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 DGPEAKE@aol.com wrote: > James, > > If you tune a good temperament, and then each octave beatless, you will have > automatic stretch as a result of inharmonicity. > > Dave Peake, RPT > Portland, OR >
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