---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment This varies a bit from person to person. The pianos do indeed create the fundemental. I was under the impression that RCT was not even programmed to measure the fundemental below A1, but I could easily be wrong here. In any case it would be difficult to measure due to the amplitude of the fundemental, and the wash of much louder partials present. "Ray T. Bentley" wrote: > First, I saw a recommendation from Ed Foote concerning the Valotti > Temperament. The RCT has a conversion to a temperament called > Valotti-Young. I have tuned this one before for a demonstration > sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter last winter. Are these temperaments > one and the same? I have seen or heard them referred to separately and > also hyphenated. Can anyone explain for me? (BTW, I saw Ed's class in > KC, and thought it brilliant!) Secondly, I learned many years ago that > we hear no fundamental in the lowest notes of pianos. But I was under > the impression that perhaps there would be fundamental heard in the > lowest notes of concert grands. I had a few minutes after the last > tuning of a Steinway D that I prepared for a concert, and used the RCT > Pianalyzer to measure the harmonics of the lowest octave. I found that > no fundamental was recorded until A1. This means that even on that piano > there is no fundamental pitch heard on the entire first octave of the > piano. Have any of you done any extensive research on this? Is this > true of most concert grands, or only on the one I happened to try this > on? Ray T. Bentley, RPTAlton, IL -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d2/a5/4c/31/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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