Watch Virgil tune. (Reno convention). He says the fourths all beat the same. Also he tuned 4 octaves beatless. The piano sings. I didn't know enough to really understand Dr. Sanderson's explanation of his tuning. Did any one else take that class? Keith R > Since one of the primary tests for ET is that of progressing beat rate > speeds of all intervals, if all fourths have that slow, lazy sensuous > rolling, it would seem that there would be a mightly flat treble, and a > muchly flat bass, (since fourths and fifths slow down from the middle > downward in my ET, I wonder how far I would have to widen G1-C2 to make it > "roll"). > In addition, I have never seen a piano that could be tuned so that all of > ANY interval are the same without compromising others somewhere here and > there through the span. > Care to explain a little further on this?? > Regards, > Ed Foote RPT >
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