Temperament Designer

[Richard Moody]

>
> 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

Yes in worst case senerios that is true.   Like getting a double octave
beatless only to have one or both of the octaves beat.   This is down in the
bass usually.   Or getting the octave + 5th (12th) beatless only to have the
octave beat.  Usually it happens that the octave is pure but the 12th beats
or worse the double octave is pure but the 12th beats. Of course these are
what piano makers try to avoid, they are the "defect of the instrument" to
borrow a word from the ancients.

I downloaded "Temperament Designer" and it looks very interesting. Thanks
for the time and effort to make it available.  It looks like it does what I
haven't (yet)  got spread sheets to do, enter a beat rate and convert it
into cents.    ---ric