source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 11:46:05 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical Tuning From: Daniel Wolf Richard Moody wrote: ''Most piano tuning supply houses should sell a G# fork at 415.3 cps. I would be interested in how the students are instructed (learn) to tune the harpsichords and fortepianos.'' I learned how from Douglas Leedy around 1976, when he was an instructor at the Early Music Workshop in Idyllwild, CA. He gave us a single page with instructions for pythagorean, quarter comma meantone, and two or three well temperaments. We practiced tuning beatless octaves, fifths, and Major thirds, and then learned to count beats in the reference octave using a watch with a second hand or a metronome. I suspect most students learn similar methods - although digitial tuners may be used more frequently nowadays in setting the tempered intervals. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:07 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05052; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:08:18 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:08:18 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05038 Received: (qmail 4675 invoked from network); 4 Jul 1997 17:08:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Jul 1997 17:08:09 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu