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Equal tunings and absolute pitches

🔗kalleaho <kalleaho@mappi.helsinki.fi>

6/7/2002 3:16:48 AM

Hi everyone!

What would be an elegant way to tune absolute pitches when using
equal tunings? Should they be related to the Halberstadt keyboard so
that one would use the International Standard A = 440? But this
requires that one has the key A in the keyboard mapping.

I've been using Monzo standard where 1/1s are 2^n Hertz
(n=0,1,2,3,...) with Just Intonation.
I would like to use this standard with equal temperaments as well.
The problem is where to put these pitches on the keyboard. Midi 0 =
32 hz perhaps, so it would be the lowest C?
Any objections?

Paul, how do you tune your 22-equal keyboard absolute pitches?

Kalle

🔗emotionaljourney22 <paul@stretch-music.com>

6/7/2002 6:18:22 AM

--- In tuning@y..., "kalleaho" <kalleaho@m...> wrote:

> Paul, how do you tune your 22-equal keyboard absolute pitches?

pretty randomly -- i tune the guitar to itself, and then i use
the "master tuning" on the keyboard to tune the keyboard to the
guitar! (the "natural" [null key sig.] symmetrical decatonic scale is
made to coincide with the open strings of the guitar; there are two
ways of doing this) once i get the bass, though, i'm planning to use
A-440 as a standard -- why not?