historical tuning 1805

[Richard Moody]

>From Newton....
> I would be most useful, in thinking through these concepts, if you
> people would use "expanded" and "contracted" intervals.

Many terms have been used,  narrow, flat, diminished, weak, "contracted". For common
usage, between Braid White and Jorgensen, "narrow" and "wide"  seem to be
the terms most used. 
"Tuning a fifth flat" indicates the upper note  is
 flattened to produce a narrow fifth, as opposed to tuning the lower note (root)
sharp to obtain the tempered fifth.    ---ric



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> From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: historical tuning 1805
> Date: Saturday, August 21, 1999 9:57 AM
> 
> > tuning four fifths flat 1/4 comma to produce a pure third.
> 
> I would be most useful, in thinking through these concepts, if you
> people would use "expanded" and "contracted" intervals.  I get
> confused when trying to "flatten" an interval using the lower note to
> contract an interval.
> 
> I am interested in HTs but am mainly an ET tuner now that I am out of
> the University scene.
> 
> 		Newton, unearthly ET
> 
>