source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:25:20 -0700 Subject: RE: 19TET trumpet From: PAULE Kami asked, >How do you calculate the frets' positions? John Starrett, who built Neil Haverstick's 19-tone guitar and is working on a 22-tone guitar for me (how's it going, John?), recently posted to the effect that the naive method is correct. That is, if the scale length is s, and you want x-tone equal temperament, the nth fret is placed at a distance of s/(2^(n/x)) from the bridge. After this is done, the usual process of adjusting the intonation of the octave by moving the bridge saddles should give good results across the fingerboard. I hope he's right! Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 03:59 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04318; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 04:00:48 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA04322 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA18713; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:00:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:00:46 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu