At 04:15 PM 11/27/98 -0700, you wrote: >Newton Hunt wrote: >> >> ...I think this is because you can tune one string, say to an SAT, tune the >> next by ear, check with SAT and it is flat. Tune to the SAT and compare >> unison and it is out. I have yet to come to an understanding of this, I >> just know it is so. Weird! >> >My guess is that the ear listens to the dominant coincident partials >whereas the SAT might be listening to a different set of partials. Then, >if there are any inharmonicity differences between the strings of a >unison, the ear will want the fundamentals tuned slightly differently >for a quiet unison. > >Makes me think of a model C Steinway with the different speaking lengths >in the lower treble section - for an intentional beat in every unison? > >Tom > >-- >Thomas A. Cole, RPT That's probably right. The ear judges the overall compound effect, rather than an inflexibly specific set of partials, and can accommodate a more, er, idiosyncratic mix of partials than can an ETD. Either method will be right by it's own criteria, but the results won't agree. Ron
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