Are you able to set out your research findings in a table of quantified results? Also what tuning was used and what key?
MH --- On Tue, 11/11/08, David Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Temperaments, the second night > To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Tuesday, 11 November, 2008, 1:11 AM > I measured David's system with my measurement > microphones, a 32 bit > recorder and a strobe, and the notes were accurate. The > best notes > are dead on, the worst a cent or two off, which is normal > anyway--if > you hit the string harder they will drift more. I posted > the photo on > my web site. More than that, I cannot do, but I would think > that > would be enough. > The measurements measured the sound, which I equate with > reality, but > from a physics point of view there is some wiggle room > there, since > one can technically distinguish perceived sound from > measured sound > as in combination tones, or changes in the ear itself. > However, David's system is the only one that I have > measured that > works. In practice, the lute was VERY in tune with the > harpsichord > and the organ, and much more in tune than the other > instruments. > The frets were adjusted slightly to account for differences > in > tension, etc, as one always does anyway. > In short: easy to do, proven to work, And I owe David a > beer, at least. > dt > > > At 03:18 AM 11/10/2008, you wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Andrew Gibbs > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A nice quote from August Magnan (the entomologist > who calculated that > > > bumble bees are incapable of flight): > > > > > > 'One shouldn't be surprised that the > results of the calculations > > > don't square with reality.' > > > >The other day the cartoon in my news paper showed two > scientists. One > >congratulates the other with his succesful experiment: > >'Congratulations! Bbut is it possible according to > the theory?' This > >also reminded me of our mean tone discussions. > > > >On a side note, thick gut strings and thin gut strings > are impossible > >to get in tune with straight frets anyway, whatever > temperament. > >Perhaps some tolerance in our ears is needed, too. ;-) > > > >David > > > >-- > >******************************* > >David van Ooijen > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >www.davidvanooijen.nl > >******************************* > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
