Jorgensen's Analysis of EBVT now on Website

To all interested,

Recently, I asked Professor Owen Jorgensen RPT to analyze and confirm the
temperament idea I have had for the modern piano now for a good 10 years. He
graciously did so. His hand written documents can be viewed on my website.
Just scroll down the index page and click on the link, "Mathematical Analysis
of the EBVT by Professor Owen Jorgensen, RPT".

I have always tuned this idea aurally but often stored my results as a custom
program in my Sanderson Accu-Tuner. Many interested people, however wanted
to know the so-called "Correction Figures" which are a set of deviations
applied to an Electronic Tuning Program. These proved very difficult to
determine because there had never been a firm, theoretical model established.
Professor Jorgensen helped me to find it.

Now, the Equal Beating Victorian Temperament can be accurately tuned by
anyone with an Electronic Tuning Device (ETD) which provides a stretch
program for Inharmonicity compensation. The only difference remaining
between that and the way I actually tune the piano will be in the way I
manipulate the octaves but a study of my method called "Tempered Octaves"
will show how to make this small adjustment if desired.

The official Correction Figures are transcribed here:

C +3.8
C# -0.8
D +0.9
D# +3.1
E -2.0
F +1.8
F# -2.7
G +3.1
G# +1.2
A 0.0
A# +2.4
B 0.0

All comments are welcome.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin
www.Billbremmer.com