Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] in tune - stupid thread [WAS: Tuning Program or wav files?]
From: John Anderson (ardour_AT_semiosix.com)
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 08:50:59 EET
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 07:05, Michal Seta wrote:
> As it's been pointed out, the 12TET tuning system is incompatible with
> overtone series of a vibrating string so even the Feiten tuning must
> be out of tune. Probably differently and perhaps the differences are
> actually appealing to some players but still out of tune.
I read an article a while back where listening tests showed that most
people prefer a slightly stretched octave. My guess though is that
they'll prefer a stretched octave where the beating will correspond to
their current brainwave frequency. Which when awake is normally 10 - 16
Hz, IIRC. But that's just a theory right now.
> I hope that some day the digital technology will bring us a just
> intonation guitar that will retune itself depending on which key
> you're playing in :) But by then, I will probably go back to acoustic
> instruments (providing I'm still alive). For now, I have modified one
> of my instruments to do just intonation and it's alot of fun. And I
> don't play tonal music so modulations to different keys are of no
> consequence to me :)
Heh. No matter which way one looks at the whole conundrum, there's a
tradeoff to be made. I have an old nylon-string acoustic that I
unfretted. Playing it isn't too hard, except for some chords. The big
problem is sustain, which is well, what sustain? This fixes the sustain
problem, according to the reviews I've read:
http://www.vigierguitars.com/GCatalog/Gve6f.htm
bye
John
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