Klarinet Archive - Posting 000401.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:50:59 -0400

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:45:58 -0400, bhausmann1@-----.com said:

> Digital pianos are stretch-tuned, too.

Really?? I suppose that a completely accurate representation of a real
piano would include anharmonicity, but it seems to me that that could be
advantageously thrown away without changing the perceived tone.

Probably it depends on the details of how the sound is synthesised, but
isn't the waveform after the attack periodic (even though subject to
decay) and therefore certainly harmonic, on such a digital instrument?

Or am I talking rubbish?

> On some of the better ones you can undo that and use mean-tone or
> several other variant tuning schemes.

I don't understand this bit, anyway. The 'opposite' of mean-tone or
other schemes, which are different ways of dividing the octave into
semitones, is *equal* temperament, surely.

Tony
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