In a message dated 3/13/99 2:05:23 PM Central Standard Time, Tunebyear@AOL.COM writes: << >gently and C4-E4 beating faster than any other interval. This, my friends is >Reverse Well and it is wrong. \ Bill, I listen very intently to my tunings *always* and my thirds don't do that, you assume too much. Tom Ayers >> This is what I was afraid of. Many of the people on this List will be the kind of aural tuner who is one out of ten. They are better than average and are so due to an ongoing interest in what they do. You probably use a temperament sequence that starts with contiguous 3rds. If you know how to do that, you can easily avoid the errors that lead to Reverse Well. It is people like Jim Coleman on this List who discovered and developed ET sequences that overcame the problems of the old 4ths and 5ths patterns that most people used. What I challenge you to do is to listen to what others in your area do. When you come to a piano that someone else has tuned, listen to see if you don't find exactly what I have described much more often than not. What I have said has not been an assumption, it has been an observation. Sincerely, Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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