Learning Aural Tuning (Broadwood)

[Farrell]

Did they make forks back then with a Double Octave Beat adjustment? If not, this sounds like a one-size-fits-all. I'll stick with my Verituner.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: Learning Aural Tuning (Broadwood)


> Grin... the origions of the Ear / EDT discussion go back quite a ways
> dont they ?
> 
> Richard Moody wrote:
> 
> > Below is from James Broadwood in 1811---the sequence for tuning ET
> >
> >
> > For those who find this difficult Broadwood offers....
> >
> >        "Those who after giving this method attentive trial, are
> > still unable to satisfy themselves may have recourse to a set of
> > twelve forks correctly tuned, to twelve semitones.".  "Some
> > gentlemen who have made trial of this mode have written to me that
> > they have succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectation, and
> > find themselves competent to put their instruments in better tune
> > than they could before get done for them in their neighbourhood."
> >
> > ---rm
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