EBVT "correct & authentic"

[Kent Swafford]

Hi Bill,

I'm looking forward to seeing these figures. I have long thought that 
the problem with developing these figures has been the irregularity of 
lower partials about which Ron K is reminding us.

What I mean is that I believe the "correction figures" should be 
calculated as if there were no inharmonicity at all. (I believe this is 
how most HT figures have been obtained, as if there were no 
inharmonicity.) Along with the zero inharmonicity figures, you could 
then provide the aural description of the beat rate relationships of 
your temperament for checking. The professional tuner could then use an 
ETD to "macro"-tune your temperament and use aural beat rate checks to 
"micro"-tune, just as ET is tuned.

In other words, there has been quite a delay in producing these 
figures, which I take to be a sign of some difficulty. The solution, 
IMO, is to separate out the theoretical from the practical. Show us 
what the temperament should be under ideal mathematical-model-type 
conditions, and leave it to the tuners out there to execute the 
temperament with the combination of aural and visual methods that serve 
them so well in tuning ET.

Thanks,

Kent Swafford



On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 07:01 PM, SidewaysWell1713@aol.com 
wrote:

> Eventually, I will determine what those correction figures ought to be 
> and I'll have a good, representative chart for Jason Kanter to graph