I received the latest update to my Cleartune application on the iPhone yesterday, and this version has a number of improvements to its accuracy, and importantly now allows custom tunings to be added.
So I added two:
Young 1799, and the
J.S.Bach tuning which, it is believed, he used for the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Having measured the tuning on the Stuart relative to these tunings there is obviously a difference particularly with the larger offsets but I will need to start tuning my other ‘little’ piano with one of these tunings (probably the Young 1799 as before) to see whether it is practical to be able to tune a piano to these tunings using the iPhone. I may also have to add in some sort of octave stretching but it should be instructive even though I may end up with a totally out of tune piano.
However, I will leave the Stuart at equal temperament. Given the fact that I am playing much more modern music which was written with equal temperament in mind, my experiments with well-temperament on a Stuart piano will have to wait until I get my second one.
The only problem with that is that I don’t know where I’m going to put it …
A pity really.