--- Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com> wrote: > When was international standard pitch set at A=440? > Wasn't that about 1917? Does that mean I should be tuning my 1913 Ricca & Son upright to something other than A=440?, like A=466, A=452, A=493, A=523, A=391, A=435, A=427, A=415, A=330, A=400, which one or did I not state the right one? > > Clyde > > Tvak@AOL.COM wrote: > > > Did I misinterpret something that was posted > recently in the discussion > > regarding temperaments? I was surprised to learn > that ET did not really > > exist prior to 1917. Now, the part I'm unclear > on: I believe that it was > > stated that this treatise, published in 1917, was > the first to utilize the > > concept of listening to beats in order to tune a > temperament. > > > > First of all, is the above information correct? > And if it's true that tuners > > didn't use beats to tune a piano prior to 1917, > what did they listen to? I > > can't imagine. (I must have misunderstood the > information posted.) > > Certainly, tuning unisons could not be done > without eliminating beats. > > Perhaps tuners didn't use coincidental partials to > tune prior to 1917? And am I also tuning the temperament wrong? Should I swap the beat rates between my fourths and my minor 6ths or should I tune my major 3rds pure or keep doing it the way I'm doing it now? (btw I just tuned it monday and already several unisons are noticeably out of tune.) > > > > Straighten me out! > > > > Tom Sivak > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com
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