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Musical Box Tuning Schemes
By Jim Heyworth

Hello Alan,  Thank you for your post regarding your work in determining
tuning scales and the variations used to achieve good tunings along
with, sometimes, special effects.

> I used an electronic tuner to take the tuning from a really great
> sounding box (this was a very nice sounding 18-1/2" Mira). ... I will
> not elaborate on the scheme here as it is quite complex and involved
> as I figured it out.

I think many of us on MMD would be very interested to know your
findings in more detail if the information is still available and
won't put you out too much to assemble it.  Even though it may be very
technical there are some here who might understand it.  I would be
quite pleased to hear a little more that may add some understanding to
the arguments between what is science and what is art when it comes to
comb tuning.  So far art is winning.

Jim Heyworth


(Message sent Wed 9 Jul 2003, 20:06:03 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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