Hi Alan, I'll bite. Use a temperament like the Sanderson two octave. You can find it here: http://www.accu-tuner.com/SATIIImanual/apf.html If you do, your question is moot. At 09:23 PM 4/5/2005 -0500, you wrote: > Since most temperaments work well with about 1/2 beat narrow D4-A4 >fifth and likewise with about a 1/2 beat wide D3-D4 octave, if you tuned >D3 to A4 absolutely beatless (at A5) you would have two notes (in a two >octave temperament) that were dead-on and accounting for inharminicity >across the break in most pianos Then, tuning A3 to A4, and D4 to D3 >while checking the fourths and fifths created among those four notes you'd >be pretty confident you had four solidly and rather easily placed notes. > Anything wrong with this? Now, find me a similar exercise for nailing >down F3 or F4 (NOT estimating beat rates) and I'd be one excited camper, >because after that a two octave temperament (C3-B4 for the RPT tuning >test) would be pretty easy. I know I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, >but this business of esti-placing F3, D3, and A#3 without REALLY knowing >their best placement kinda bugs me. At least with D4 you have 4ths and >5ths to listen to, but dang it if the whole structure doesn't depend too >much on getting the "right" width for the A3-A4 octave and then floating in > that F3... Alan R. Barnard Salem, MO got no takers the first time. >Hoping for some now. Sorry if it annoys anyone ... > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 04/05/2005 > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/2005 Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna@yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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