Robert Scott wrote: > Richard Moody writes: > > 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. > My understanding was that one first sampled a few notes to figure what basic inharmonicity traits there were.... then calculate a temperament on that. I think RCT first figures an equal temperament based on these samplings, then translates this to whatever historic temperament one wants based on the ET just calculated. > > 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 -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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