---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Cy writes: Great stuff, Bob; thanks. I'll probably only remember one little nugget of all this, that F2-A4 is a wide, rather than narrow, interval. --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, WV ----- Original Message ----- From: BobDavis88@aol.com To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:52 AM Subject: Re: setting pitch with a fork The 5th partial of F2 is approximately equal to the fundamental of A4. In a tuned piano, it will be about 4 beats flat of both the fork and the note, but it can be set anywhere comfortable. Hi Cy, I hope you'll find it worthwhile to chew on my note a couple of times. I think that an understanding of the principles underlying these beat COMPARISONS, and of contiguous thirds, are essential to making the jump to really musical tuning, based on each piano's needs. Not only that, they are easier, faster, and more accurate than a fixed system of beats, which aren't really the same from piano to piano anyway. By the way, in a tuned piano, F2-A4 ~is~ wide of a pure interval, but for the purposes of setting the A, it really doesn't matter whether it's set wide or narrow, as long as it's beating about 4-6 times a second [although if F2-A4 is set narrow, A4 would slow down as you raised it, instead of speeding up like when F2-A4 is wide]. The F2 is just used as a beat generator against the A4 of the fork and of the piano. Sincerely, Bob D ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fe/68/0b/e7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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