Billbrpt wrote: > and forgot to set my SAT on the page number. I was tuning each note >to the fundamental. > >I didn't realize my mistake until I had tuned almost the entire middle >section center strings (with the strip mute in). Before starting over, I >decided to see what kind of temperament it made. I'm afraid to say, somehow, >that it was blatantly Reverse Well. > I am having a very hard time visualizing (auralizing) how tuning to the theoretical fundamental in a temperament from a SAT set at 0.0 can change an ET to a cycle-of-fifth based tuning where Gb, B, or Db thirds somehow magically become the calmest sounding RBIs and C, F, and G thirds become the most harsh, or am I misunderstanding the definition of RWT? If a Well temperament is a cycle-of-fifth based temperament with the key of C as the center, then a Reverse Well temperament is one with Gb as the center. Or am I missing something? Why would the C-E interval be faster, than the Db-F above it? And then very noticeably faster than the B-D#, which should be much slower beating than the A#-C# below it? It seems like we can talk about errors in stretch or individual notes of a temperament affecting the key color, but not about their reversing the entire structure. ____________ OK, rather than just ask, I just went and tuned the temperament section on a small grand in my shop to the SAT, no page, fundamentals set at 0.0. Here's what I found: the beat rates of all the thirds progressed from slower to faster (there was one third that might be counted a little faster than its upper neighbor, but just barely), but the scaling problems and lack of inharmonicity tempering, I presume, caused there to be a jump in rate between adjacent thirds more so than if I had been tuning it for real. The 4ths were a little slower than I like, and the 5ths a little faster. Is this a reverse well? If so, I don't get it. I put my own piano in Youngs Well a few months ago, and can plainly hear key color differences. On this grand experiment, I cannot. If you can elucidate, I'd appeciate it. With respect, Ken Jankura Newburg, PA
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