Hi Doug: The only reason I suggested tuning ET first before adjusting it to the Coleman 7 is that the tuning was developed by me using a standard FAC tuning and then altering it to favor the preferred keys. The advantage of doing it with the SAT and FAC is that the stretch is automatically built in. Now that an FAC tuning can be altered in the SAT, it is the logical way to do the tuning. The Coleman 4 was a little easier to alter, but the Coleman 7 gives more color differential into the other keys. I think it would be ideal for ragtime. I haven't had time to approach the Coleman 7 from strictly an aural procedure. I suspect it will be more complicated than other Well Temperaments. Jim Coleman, Sr. PS You may forward the above to the list if you like. On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 DougHersh@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 97-03-31 20:38:50 EST, you write: > > << Dear Jim, > I thought I would E-mail you privately and tell you I tried your latest > version of well temp. I did not know if it would seem to the list that we > were having a 2-way conversation so I thought I would ask you a few > questions > privately. I'm sure there is enough interest on the list but thought I would > get your opinion first. > The Coleman 7 sure did sound authentic and historic. I know very little > about these historic tunings but what trying yours told me was that I was on > the right track when I was using Owen Jorgenson's book to tune the equal > beating temp.'s by ear. > 1.In your aural instructions you said to start with equal- temp., why? > 2. When I tuned your temp. I did it on a Steinway L using the > Accu-tuner. > I took a good stored tuning and just adjusted each note as I went using the > numbers you gave for the one octave. Was this the right way to do it using > the AT? By the way, this was not a customers piano. > 3. Would your Coleman 7 be appropriate for Victorian era Ragtime music? > The reason I ask is, I tune the pianos at Disneyland and all they play is > Ragtime or Dixieland in two or three keys, such as, C,G,D. I think it would > be kind of cool to put a historically correct Temp on those pianos. > 4. When you are tuning one of these Temperaments by ear, how are you > stretching the octaves outside the temperament on a piano? I know you would > tune them pure on a harpsichord. > One thing I noticed about the Historical Temp. on a modern grand is that > it made it sound very sweet and musical but kind of dead especially in the > treble. Is this your consensus as well? I'm really more interested in tuning > these temperaments by ear and it seems that it is so much easier to do if > you > don't start with ET. > Thank you again for sharing this with the list and I hope I'm not > bothering you with novice type questions. > > Doug Hershberger >> > >
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