DAC and real musical instruments

[Caloroso, Michael E]

> Can someone tell us how large,
> preferably expressed not in percentage but in beat rate, how large the
> deviation of a typical streched tuning piano and a "perfect" instrument that would be
> playing along, is ?
> 
This is the best example I know of, expressed in cents and not beat rate.

> http://www.badrat.com/rhodes/manual/fig5-4.gif
> 
> What "are real good players" doing ? Often re-tuning their guitars or
> synthesizers
> on the fly, often doing slight variations of their finger position on their
> violins
> by ear ? (To the benefit of the listener) Throwing the mellotrons out of
> their rig ?
> 
String players do this on the fly, using theirs ears.  Thinking of the training that goes behind that, I have tremendous respect for these players.

MC
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