Klarinet Archive - Posting 000510.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuning: let's get it sorted out
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:41:10 -0400

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:50:04 -0400, studiorenaud@-----.com said:

> Interestingly, I have a Rolland U220 whose best,
> most realistic, purest, piano samples, have some
> slightly bad unisons, & the temperament is not quite
> perfect. Perhaps an attempt to woe the public into
> believing this is a great realistic piano sound. Stretch
> is incorporated into it's tuning. Since they are sampling
> and digitally recording real piano tones that have sharp
> harmonic content, it is part of the inherent piano sound,
> digitally stored, or real. Octaves must be stretched to
> some degree beyond theoretical for them to work.

So, the digital piano follows the real piano, and you *can't* defeat
stretch tuning.

I was certainly wrong to think that the anharmonicity might be removed
at sampling, though.

I was thinking about the problem in a completely wrong way, actually,
even though as I admitted, I knew nothing about it. Mark has pointed
out to me that the samples are stored in a frequency domain
representation, whereas I was imagining a time-domain representation.

Silly me.

Tony
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