on 3/16/04 1:41 PM, antares at antares@euronet.nl wrote: > Allow me to say something about beats.... and especially in regard to tuning > the deep bass : > The contra bass and sub-contra bass we can only tune scientifically and > precisely with the aid of counting beats. > Of course I am talking about ET. > In Japan I have, for the first time in my life, learned to tune a bass very > but VERY exact with the aid of listening to the beats of an octave and a minor > seventh and without an ETD. > Counting the beats was essential in making the most perfect aural tuning > possible. Listening with musical ears is a VERY great help. but can be > misleading when it comes to a more scientific approach. > > my two beats > > friendly greetings > from > André Oorebeek Hey Andre.....mi amigo......I too listen to beats all the way down to note #1...the slow beats of fourths and fifths; it's, for me, THE most precise way to musically AND scientifically tune the instrument. Sometimes I have to listen to the two tones together for 4-5 seconds until the "true beat" of the fourth or the fifth appears out of the garbage; but wait I do, and when I'm done, in tune it is, perfectly stretched with the rest of the piano. I want the fourths to beat at that same slow, rolling pace I've talked about before---let's say between 1 and 1.75 beats per second. Dial it in, Captain.... xoxxoDavid Andersen
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