On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 07:05, Michal Seta wrote: > As it's been pointed out, the 12TET tuning system is incompatible with > overtone series of a vibrating string so even the Feiten tuning must > be out of tune. Probably differently and perhaps the differences are > actually appealing to some players but still out of tune. I read an article a while back where listening tests showed that most people prefer a slightly stretched octave. My guess though is that they'll prefer a stretched octave where the beating will correspond to their current brainwave frequency. Which when awake is normally 10 - 16 Hz, IIRC. But that's just a theory right now. > I hope that some day the digital technology will bring us a just > intonation guitar that will retune itself depending on which key > you're playing in :) But by then, I will probably go back to acoustic > instruments (providing I'm still alive). For now, I have modified one > of my instruments to do just intonation and it's alot of fun. And I > don't play tonal music so modulations to different keys are of no > consequence to me :) Heh. No matter which way one looks at the whole conundrum, there's a tradeoff to be made. I have an old nylon-string acoustic that I unfretted. Playing it isn't too hard, except for some chords. The big problem is sustain, which is well, what sustain? This fixes the sustain problem, according to the reviews I've read: http://www.vigierguitars.com/GCatalog/Gve6f.htm bye John
