tuning HT's by ear

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

It seems to me that stretch happens quite naturally when you are tuning 
aurally.  You can choose to be moderate or aggressive but its there if you 
are listening to your octaves and large intervals.

N'est pa?
Andrew
At 12:57 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Ed Foote wrote:
> > ET has a characteristic "sound" to it, that is worth something, and
> > reason enough for its use...
>
>Good points. Thanks for getting me back on a more moderate path. I was
>overreacting to some previous comments.
>
>
> > A widely stretched WT can light up a piano for concerto work, and a
> > minimally stretched WT can give wonderful mellowness to Mozart
> > sonatas, it is a matter of taste.
>
>I look forward to trying it out.
>
>Putting aside the pros and cons of ET and HT's, I need to find an
>effective way to put some stretch into my tuning. For now I can keep the
>temperament itself with essentially no stretch. But I have to stretch the
>upper and lower parts of the piano, at least some. If I just use octaves,
>I am risking messing up other intervals in the non-temperament regions.
>And I can't use runs of intervals as I can in ET. So I guess I just have
>to try out all the intervals in each octave that I tune and make sure
>nothing sounds too out of place.
>
>I realize an ETD can be useful here, but I want to work it out aurally.
>
>Charles Neuman
>
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