At 01:12 AM 10/27/2006, Stuart Walsh wrote:
>Thanks for the advice. What is the Hayne's book? And is there some
>(simple!) formula for calculating, for example ,fret placements in a
>fifth-comma temperament?

Hi all,

I thought I might take this opportunity to put in a plug for my page 
on tunings and temperaments:
http://www.theaterofmusic.com/temperaments.html.

Sadly, it is not as up-to-date as I would like, but I do have a table 
of basic cent values for several temperaments as well as the 
calculation one uses to determine the fret factors (the number used 
to multiply by the string length in order to obtain the fret 
position). I purposely left off the fret factors themselves because 
different calculators (with various capacities for the number of 
digits) give different results due to rounding.

I hope this is helpful for the discussion at hand.
Andrew 




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