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Re: Old guitar strings




On Tue, 04 Nov 1997 15:37:03 EST Thomas L Wayburn wrote (among other
things):

most pianos are noticeably
badly tuned, which does not take very good hearing to observe as the
beats are quite audible.

On the other hand, it is impossible to eliminate beats, even in theory.
Any tuning of a piano leaves some intervals out of tune. For instance,
the standard "equal temper" tuning makes all major thirds quite sharp.
Most people are so used to this style of tuning, that they accept it as
the "correct" tuning, even though it is really just a compromise.

--- Tim


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Timothy J. Folkerts email: tim.folkerts@valpo.edu
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Valparaiso University
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