re:Chestnut help

Gary writes:
>1. Certainly pianos have been able to be tuned to equal temperament before
any
> 20th century technology was applied to it. It seems surprising that the
> same nontechnological methodologies couldn't be applied to 17th-century
> clavichords.

Clavichords are so bebung-sensitive that their temperament had to be tuned
for the individual that was playing it.
The earliest set of instructions that will result in an acceptable equal
temperament seem to have been written in 1830, and even then you have to be
able to divide the octave into three ET maj3rds, and then on top of them, four
equally tempered min3rds. Sorta tricky. Bill Garlick, my teacher, has done
it, but it requires a real stretch to think that the average 17th century
instrument builder or repairman would be in the same league.
Without knowing how to accurately measure the width of a third, it would
be very difficult to tune a 12TET on a strung keyboard instrument. The tests
required are not found in any of the rather extensive literature before the
mid to late 1800's. (According to Jorgensen, whom I have so far found to be
fairly well documented.)
Regards,
Ed Foote
Precision Piano Works
Nashville, Tn.


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On 12/09/97 Bob Lee said:
>I'm new to the list, and I've never posted to a mail list before. I hope
>this works.
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Welcome to the list!

>I'm a steel guitarist. The steel guitar is usually tuned in JI. Somehow

What a great axe! Despite being fretted (underneath) the slide permits
the performer to essentially tune 'on the fly' in performance real time.
Not only is it an amazing instrument (both hands, feet, and knees all get
into the fray!), it can work in all tunings.
An aside: I maintain that some of best technical players are in the
country / bluegrass range of fields. There are some real Paganini's
out there.
-- Brian Belet bbelet@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu


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