aural technique for treble

[David Love]

No, because it's the progression of intervals that is more important.  A
smooth progression of thirds, or tenths, sixths, fourths and fifths. 
Tuning octaves that way gives you no real reference point.

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Charles Neuman <piano@charlesneuman.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 1/22/2003 6:57:23 PM
> Subject: aural technique for treble
>
> When you're tuning the treble, instead of going note by note from the top
> of the temperament section to the top, why not go octave by octave?
>
> That is, if the temperament ends at A4, I would tune B4, and then B5, B6,
> and B7. Then I'd go back and tune C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, etc.
>
> The main disadvantage I'd see would be that if my stretching gets too
> wide, for example, I might end up so that my A's are all too sharp for the
> A#'s that I tuned a while ago. Yeah, I guess that's the drawback.
>
> Does anyone do this?
>
> Charles Neuman
> PTG Assoc, Long Island
>
>
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