Richard Moody writes: >>>> If a aural instruction calls for 10bps for C4--E4 3rd, I don' see how the inharmonicity of the piano affects these instructions. 10 bps should occur no matter what the inharmonicity. <<<< That is true. If you follow aural instructions based on beats you will be able to achieve results defined by the beats that you set. But what I am trying to do is translate those aural instructions into 12 offsets in cents from equal temperament for use in electronic tuning devices. If the partial used by the ETD is not the same as the partial used in making the beat that set the note, then the offset of that partial from its ET counterpart is dependent on inharmonicity. To some extent, inharmonicity even affects the results in aural tuning of HTs. If you tune certain intervals for certain beat rates and then hope to check other intervals that you did not specifically tune, but which are implied by the notes you did tune, then inharmonicity can affect the resulting beat rates. -Robert Scott Real-Time Specialites
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