Vintage Synth Repair

--- Matt Nolan <matt@...> wrote:
> It is a fact that the human ear isn't quite linear
> in this respect - the
> perception of octaves gets closer together as you
> get higher. But this
> only really starts to get noticeable really quite
> high up! You will find
> that people like violinists just do this naturally
> when pitching very high
> notes. I am not sure whether pianos and such get
> tuned like this or not.

With regard to pianos, yes, it's called "stretch
tuning".  I remember once reading Donald Fagen of
Steely Dan bemoaning the fact that you can't stretch
tune a synthesizer...

BaM

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