Hello,
Am 04.04.2008 um 10:48 schrieb Lauwers Pieter:
I’m just looking for a good, standard temperament to tune both my
HG in. (G/C and a D/G. A little bit like “tangent tuning for dummies”.
First, a general answer: tune the gurdies to Kirnberger II (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirnberger_temperament) - this is easy if you
either
1. have got a tuner that is capable of this temperament or
2. are able to hear and tune pure fifths: tune all fifths pure exept
D-A and A-E, put the A into about the middle position between its
position as pure fifth A-D and its position as pure fifth A-E.
if you can hear pure fifths this tunung practically can be achived
the following way (here for G/C):
tune the trompette to D according to the A of the tuner
tune the G drone according to the to the tropette in D, tune the
open G chanter, all G and H to the drone of G,
tune all A and C# to the tuner,
tune all D and F# to the tropette in D (retune the trompette after
the tuner A if neccessary),
tune the C drone to the open G chanter, tune all C, E, F and Ab (the
C as major third of Ab) to the drone of C,
retune the mouche or G drone into F according to the C drone, and
tune the Bb to the F
retune the C drone into Bb according to the now F drone, and tune the
Eb to the Bb.
now a row of pure fifths is established: E-H-F#-C#-G#/Ab-Eb-Bb-F-C-G-
D-A the interval E-A is much too small. The fret for A is fine in G
but to high in C major or A minor.
Retune the A down a bit, so that if you press the key with minimum
pressure it sounds nice in C and if you press it with more pressure
it sounds nice in G. Check the effect by playing an F major chord (F
A C) and an D major chord (D F# A) alternating. For this it is
helpfull to switch between the trompette in D to support the A major
chord and the C drone to support the F major chord.
This retuning of the A now establishes a version of the Kirnberger II
temperament as it is splitting the ditonic comma (difference between
7 octaves and 12 perfect fifths) between the two fifths D-A and A-E.
The difference to standard Kirnberger II temperament is that sice one
can change the pitch of A by pressing the key more or less, the split
of the comma is not equally distributed, A-E is bigger than D-A which
can be corrected by pressing the key.
kind regards,
Simon
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