I don't know any German, but in English we have words to make comparisons. One thing is "good", another "better" then only one can be "best". There are words that have to have a different form of comparison for example "dead". There isn't any "deader" or "deadest" it's rather "nearly dead", "more nearly dead" and "dead". This method of comparison also has to be used on the word "equal". There is "nearly equal" "more nearly equal" and "equal". The "onlypure" tuning is either equal temperament or it is not. If you can patent "equal" maybe you can patent "dead". You'll make a fortune! dp David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Stopper Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:04 AM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: re:onlypure tuning David, I think we speak about different things here when we talk about 3 or 4 note combinations. You probably mean the (of course common method) to judge purity over the stretch range of more than a perfect twelfth. My method is not used for tuning stretch (like the Bremmer method with sostenuto with three or four notes over two or three or four octaves). I use 3-note combinations in one pure twelfth, and set up the complete temperament with an octave and an inner lower fifth and a inner outer fifth. Have you ever set up the tempereament this way? I donīt think so. And this will also lead to a different result than your method does. regards, Bernhard > Fine, we will see you there. > I can prove I taught a student to use octave-fifth > 3 and 4 note combinations to judge purity and choose > spread 10 years ago. Like to sustain spreads with > sostento as well to free up the hand to tune while > listening to all sorts of combinations, of which > octave-5ths are the most natural and common > combinations. I got that trick from David > Morgan, now retired, 22 years ago, who got that trick > from Peter Dean in Ottawa, 35 years ago. > > It is like patenting a colour. > It will not happen. > If it does happen it is wrong, and you can sue me. > > > > Cheer > Dave Renaud .org/mailman/listinfo/pianotech _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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