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How to Tune a Player Piano Out of Tune
By Mark Ritzenhein

One more thought on a "honky-tonk tuning" -- with a "shrinking" tuning,
the major thirds might have slower beat frequencies than is otherwise
found in equal temperament.  Perhaps this becomes a perverse aural
compensation for the "sour" octaves.  It might also help to think of
such a de-tuning as closer to a well-temperament or even mean-tone, in
an odd way.

I still do not find this an illegitimate subject, because many intervals
in equal temperament are imperfect or unjust, and we commonly accept
the compromise for practical reasons.

Mark Ritzenhein


(Message sent Tue 13 Sep 2011, 08:49:42 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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