Stretching 5th&6th Octaves

[Richard Brekne]

"Z! Reinhardt" wrote:

> You too?  Stretching the stuffing out of the killer octaves?

I have to admit that since becoming fascinated with Virgils so called beatless
octaves my tunings have stretched out significantlly. Getting three very clean
sounding notes (4:2:1) is actaully pretty easy.. tho its still hard to stretch
much beyond that. I tend towards just a tad wide on the double octaves... no
wider then leaves them sounding "apparently" beatless. Combined with this unison
approach I was on about with Don a while back gives a real nice "cling" to the
total result... but its quite stretched compared to what I was doing a couple
years ago. I havent found an easy way to get RCT or Tunelab to precalculate this
for me yet... but then I havent spent a lot of time trying either.


> When I first got an Accu-Tuner, I had the worst time trying to figure out
> what it was thinking of when calculating for those octaves.  I guess what it
> was giving me were mathematically correct specs, but they always sounded
> flat.  I have since tinkered with ways to fool it into giving me the octaves
> I want in the killer range.
>
> The visual equivalents to tuning methods would be, I should think ...
> a] electronic tuning device = computer-generated drawings
> b] strictly technical (paying excruciatingly close attention to beat speeds
> etc.) = mechanical drawing (no freehand)
> c] musical with room to fudge as necessary = freehand drawing, with some use
> of drafting tools
>

Interesting comparison... me likes.....ETD's are definately double edged.

>
> Off the wall again
> Z! Reinhardt  RPT
> Ann Arbor  MI
> diskladame@provide.net

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no