This is very strange.

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Phil,

At 07:15 2/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Susan Kline wrote:
>> All I can think of, Phil, is that one uses them to set a temperament.

I hesitated to admit to ownership of the chromatic set, but I'm outing myself.

I got it years ago when I was in the buy-every-tool-in-the-catalog mode.  I
soon realised that it was an expensive paperweight.

The only real use I got out of any of them was to tune historical
temperaments on an instrument strung for 415Hz. I'd start at C using the B
fork. I now have a Korg to give me that pitch.

As to another use...

To break up the monotony of practice room tunings what I would do would be
to grab one without looking from the case.  The order in the case was
scrambled, so I wouldn't know which one I had until I looked at it.
Whichever one it was was where I would start the temperament.
 ---Mental gymnastics for the aural tuner ---



Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu

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