source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:49:15 +0200 Subject: Re: Thai tunings From: Daniel Wolf >Were accurate and reliable measurments ever made to give 7tet >before the era of digital tuners? I second Gary. If the tuner has plenty of time and sets out by trial and error at the task of tuning seven tones so that a pentonic of the form 123 56 can be played on each of the seven degrees without any of the modes sounding different from the others (other than in pitch level), then tuning 7tet without measuring tools is not an unreasonable task. Once an acceptable model instrument has been tuned up, the experienced tuner can tune by eliminating beats and will be approximately as fast as someone working with a digital tuner. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:32 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05895; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:32:34 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:32:34 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05876 Received: (qmail 15860 invoked from network); 17 Jun 1997 16:31:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jun 1997 16:31:45 -0000 Message-Id: <009B5ED4F76D9E26.F4C1@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu