Organ's can be tuned equally with ease, although it is fairly time intensive. (A midsize instrument, say 25 stops, will take about 8 hrs. to do) It is not a lack of competence but a general lack of consistent temperature that frequently gives the general tuning fuzziness to the organ. It is a very temperature dependent creature for sure. I played on one for awhile that come winter was irrittingly out of tune for the first 10 minutes of the service as the organ chamber did not warm nearly as fast as the rest of the building. By the end of the service it sounded very decent. There have been others that have been just as adversely affected by the immense amount of heat the lighting systems put out so by the end of the service the reeds were always a risky proposition. -Shane
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message --------From: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> Date: 2/8/18 7:53 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "N. Andrew Walsh" <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> Cc: lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Gis major key signature; Lily's key signature algorithm "N. Andrew Walsh" <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:39 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> >> Don't be silly. Equal temperament most certainly is not >> "technologically impossible". > > > please note the qualifier "in the 18th century." The technological > means to tune *exact* equal temperament weren't available until around > the 1830s, There are no "technological means". Professional tuners of a number of instruments tune by _ear_ after tuning a single note (which is independent from temperament) to a reference. Of course, organs are not really tuned equally tempered even now, but that's not because of a lack of competence. Accordions are tuned by ear by good tuners, and those _are_ equal tempered as a rule. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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