Tuning vs intonation

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Maybe you should check out Jim Coleman´s Sr. pure fifths temperament.

Kristinn Leifsson





At 19:24 9.2.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks Richard, 
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>My gratest difficulty in learning to tune was not the thirds, I could
>accept beating thirds for some reason, but because of the violin, I
>always have to fight to not make the 5th's pure.  
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>> I have always tuned by beats, never heard pitch.  Well, the 
>> pitch in upper treble and lower bass gets you to the neighborhood,
>> but it always beats that finally determine tuning.  I never heard 
>> when I
>> played on the piano, C4--E4,  that the E was sharper than what I
>> would sing.  
>> 	When you played violin or trombone, did you ever notice this
>> intonation difference  on the piano before you were told
>> about it?  I always wondered after I learned piano tuning why no
>> one complained or said anything about the sharp thirds.   I haven't
>> played musical instruments in an organized setting, but did sing in
>> a HS chorus, and didn't notice the difference there. 
>> 	My home piano was a half a tone flat from my teacher's piano 
>> but I
>> never heard that I was playing a Chopin Prelude in a different key
>> for the lesson than what I practiced in, and since she lived right
>> around the corner,  sometimes that was within 15 minutes.    
>> ---ric  Atleasthecanmatchpitch
>> 
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