In a message dated 2/28/00 9:37:17 AM Central Standard Time, drwoodwind@hotmail.com writes: << The trouble is, he uses equal beating intervals, >> That is where the uniqueness, focus, power, clarity and resonance are found. Don't underestimate the Equal Beating effect. It's not the "trouble" at all. It is worth taking the trouble, conversely, to understand and exercise this concept. It amazes me how so many people try immediately to figure out some other convoluted way of tuning the EBVT when it is easy, simple and follows traditional methods. Trying to use a smooth curve type program such as FAC, Tunelab or RCT distorts it and the special character it gives the piano. It is possible to use the SAT to construct the entire 88 note tuning. However, it must be saved and used as a program. Even FAC programs are meant to be checked aurally and corrected to make a really fine tuning. The Direct Interval and Programmed Tuning capabilities of the SAT are the ones I use and consider the most important. I tell the SAT what to do, it doesn't suggest an approximation for me. The very finest aural tunings can be preserved this way. Using the SAT has been so effective for me this way that I have never once used the FAC program feature. The unfortunate characteristic about these arbitrarily divided temperaments that use correction figures for an FAC type program is that they provide no special focus the way aurally tuned intervals do. There could be some of the Equal Beating properties in a temperament conceived this way but to go for the maximum by doing an Electronically Assisted Aural Tuning Program that finds the most Equal Beating properties possible makes for a truly exceptional sounding tuning. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin
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