From den121961@yahoo.com Mon Dec 03 19:01:10 2012
Subject:Re: 30 yr old Korg BX3 question


Daniel, real interesting link. Since your understanding goes a lot deeper than mine on this issue here's something I have trouble understanding. I had to learn a carpenters song (Superstar) for a gig. I learned it in the original key first(Fm) so I could play along on youtube, even though I knew they were doing it in Em. I also learned it on my hammond CV, which will be relevant later. The hammond was amazing me, those chords just sounded beautiful.I couldn't listen enough to them. Then I went to work transposing them to E. It sucked, all the magic was gone! I talked to a friend who understands a lot more than I do about the temperament stuff, and I thought I understood him to be saying it was because the hammond isn't really stretch tuned like a piano, but I could have easily heard him wrong.
As I continued to get ready for the gig, I switched to my Korg CX3 (digital one) and lo and behold the E sounded as good as the F on that. I went back and forth trying it a few times between the real hammond and the CX and it was without a doubt true. Is the Korg somehow stretch tuned and the hammond not, or is it the thing in the link you posted about the impossibility of the gears hitting the exact notes, which you aren't supposed to hear, but maybe you actually do on a subconscious level? Any chance of explaining this to someone who doesn't even understand stretch tuning like myself?