John Anderson wrote: >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 > > > > > I'm still going with the "Shutup and play yer guitar" theory. If I talk about my guitars they make nil noise, good, bad or otherwise. If I pick one up and spank the plank...even if slightly out of tune but liveable to the average yogi bar, then I'm making noise... as I recall, *that* IS what it's all about. :) PS: I regret even commenting in the beginning. For musicians...we sure spend LOTS of bloody time hovering around computers eh? :) Cheers R~
