Explanation of Reverse Well

[Tunebyear@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/13/99 7:09:57 PM, you wrote:

>If you are an aural tuner, you should listen to your own tuning
>and see if you have not been making the same error.  If you play the 3rds of
>an F3 to F4 temperament as you would in checking for ET and you hear F3-A3
>fast, then F#3-A#3 slower, then G3-B3 fast, then Ab3-C4 slower, etc. you have
>Reverse Well.  I very commonly hear the 3rds B3-D#4 and Db4-F4 beating very
>gently and C4-E4 beating faster than any other interval.  This, my friends is
>Reverse Well and it is wrong.
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Bill,  
I listen very intently to my tunings *always* and my thirds don't do that, you
assume too much.

Tom Ayers
Tunebyear@aol.com
S,U,N,Y 
College of Fine & Performing Arts
New Paltz NY