Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Unloading.....
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:59:04 -0400

At 11:50 PM 8/15/2000 +0100, Tony Pay wrote:
>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?
>
Not really. Digital pianos reproduce stored digital samples of real
pianos. But because all of it is simply numbers, they can be manipulated
differently, have corrections/alterations added to change the overall
tuning, transpose, etc.

>> 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.
>
This starts to get over my head. Perhaps David Renaud, the piano tuner who
posted earlier, could elucidate?

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