Keith Roberts wrote: > > 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 Really ?? I suspect that there is another way of looking at beats then counting the beat rates of individual coincidents. To be sure in this perspective the notion of a beatless 4 octaves is meaningless... or what ? In Virgils own explanation of the natural beat he seems to refute the usefullness of tuning by octave types per se. I would think his perspective on 4ths then is likewise not the same as the actual difference in HZ between the 3rd and 4th partials in fourths. I would like to read someones notes on Dr Sandersons class for sure. Ricb > > 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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