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Justin Renquist <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:21:03 -0500
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VERY interested... what program are you speaking of??
 
would gleichscwebend mean equal beats in English?
 
jusitn
 
>Hi hpschd-l readers,
>I'm new here, so forgive if I repeat things everybody knows.
>I own a small clavichord, love the small sound, but loathe the tuning part.
>My experience is that it needs tuning VERY frequently, at least once a week
>some strings need retuning. My clavichord has two strings per key, so the
>moment they are a bit out, one hears it.
>A great help I have is from the program "master tuner" that allows tuning of
>these instruments with microphone input. This program is a beauty, especially
>because it knows many tuning schemes that are well tempered but not...
>"gleichschwebend" (don't know the English word), and also some untempered such
>as the middle tone and pythagorean.
>Even with this program as a help, a major retune costs me over 2 hours, and a
>minor a small hour.
>If anyone is interested, I'll post the details.
>Maarten Boers ---- [log in to unmask]
>
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