How To Tune To One Seventh Comma MeanTone - Starting From D Above Middle C | Farley's House of Pianos

How To Tune To 1/7 Comma MeanTone - Starting From D Above Middle C

According to Jean Baptiste Romieu - As found in “Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear” by Owen Jorgensen. Reproduced with author’s permission

As presented by Tim Farley, Registered Piano Technician, at the 2010 Piano Tuners Guild (PTG) Convention during his presentation titled “One Seventh Comma Modified Meantone as an All-Around Tuning System”.

Download this PDF of instructions and then follow along using the audio files below in which Mr. Farley goes through the instructions step by step.

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