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Piano tuning - the essential idea Brian Capleton PhD
Updated 27th May 2007 © copyright Brian Capleton 2006, 2007
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Like an outdated piece of software, this old theory now has a new "plug-in". It's called inharmonicity. The problem is that the new "plug-in" is still plugged into the old theory.
The situation remains that no one will ever understand what the master tuner really does, and how master tuning is achieved, simply by studying the nineteenth-century theory of beating, even with its new "plug-in" plugged in !
The problem with the theory of beating, as it is invariably presented, it that it is woefully inadequate to describe what really goes on in sound recipes, especially in piano notes and intervals, and this still remains the case when inharmonicity is plugged in.
The theory is also frequently presented as though it is just a prescription for getting notes to "the right pitch", completely ignoring the importance of tone in its own right, and completely ignoring the reality of what pitch actually is.
So what does the master tuner do?
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