Here's another view of the tuning scheme for the topic. I received this from a lurker who doesn't want to take the heat of proposing such blasphemy. >The ragtime composers and performers I've tuned for greatly >prefer a full bore Well Temperament. That is, until they play >in Modified Meantone. Then they feel like they've really come home >...especially likes a tuning that has 26 cent thirds in Gb, Db and Ab, >(and 23 cents in B) I think that is important evidence in regarding >Ragtime/Honky-Tonk tuning. RBI's instead of RBU's. (Rapidly Beating Intervals instead of Rapidly Beating Unisons) In other words, a dissonant unison is not necessary to produce the harmonic tension. Not sacrificing tone for experssion. Regards from the Radical Edge, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@comcast.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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