temperament

[Brian Lawson]

>
> and every intervall should beat 1 time per second.
> this will mean that the fourts are wide and the fifts are narrow.


The error above is that the 4ths beat once per second and the 5ths are at
1/2 beat per second (or once every 2 seconds).  Other than I start from
middle C your sequence is fairly similar for tuning a equal temperment.

Brian Lawson, RPT
Johannesburg, South Africa


----- Original Message -----
From: <mstore@nic.fi>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: temperament


> are there any other systems than the system don sent me to make the
> temperament??
> i have realized that it will take long time to learn.
> i have practised allmost 3 hours every day for month now. have practised
> tuning unisons , octaves,thirds fifts and so on. there´s no problem with
> tuning them without getting any beats. tuning the exact amount of beats
> in a intervall is much harder. the biggest problem is that i don´t know
> how many times the intervalls are suppose to beat.
> what would be the easiest way to make a temperament that is equal???
> that is my big question, and is it possible to get jorgensens writings???
> what are them most common procedure to do it? i know one but it´s very
> hard to do. it goes like this.
>
> first tune a4 then tune a3 clean.
>
> then
> a-d up
> d-g down
> g-c up
> c-f down
> f-bb up
> b-eb up
> eb-ab down
> ab-db up
> db-gb down
> gb-b up
> b-e up
>
> and every intervall should beat 1 time per second.
> this will mean that the fourts are wide and the fifts are narrow.
> then the f3-a3 third will beat 6.93 times.
> and then every thirds should be a little faster the higher the pitch is.
>
> what do you people think about this temperament?
>
> this is what i was thaught but it seems to be a little hard to get it
good.
> then i should probably tell you that im just 18 so i have a lot of time to
> practise and i have very easy to learn stuff like this once i understand
> how i shall do it.
>
> i have also practised with tunelab.  so i know that my hammer teqnique is
> pretty good if you concider that i have practised one month.
>
> last week i tried tuning a whole piano and i was satesfied cause the piano
> was actually playable afterwards. (it even sounded much better than
> before i started)
>
>
> so now you all know a little more what i know.
>
>
> ps .. even though i live in Finland doesn´t mean that i speak finnish. as
a
> matter of fact im one of the 300000 swedish speaking finns..... ;o)
>
>
> thanx.
>
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