Can somebody tell to me what meens cajun standart tuning.

Are you "all wet" ? .... well never mind.

I am dry on 3 boxes (C, D & Bb), and semi wet on one other.

Jude Moreau tells me I am at about 5 cents on my black/blonde C box which he placed his magic on for me back a ways.

5 cents wet, yep... I like it and it suits the Antonelli reeds dandy with a good responsive ring that is just right for my ole goaty ears!

Fact of the matter is: I would not mind and would like to explore having my D and Bb tapped into this 5 cent thing as well... to me, it is a great sound.

The alternative perhaps, would be to purchase new accordions off the bench tuned to this semi wet thing from the get go. That in itself, is a hard sell to Ms. Linda in these costly accordion times. Anyone have a handle on the winning loto numbers here on the left side, by chance?? Eh?

Bon Chance
Nonc D

Wet or dry tuning aside, when you play a C or a G chord on a one row C accordion, there are no pulses between the notes. That means if you compare the E note and the B note to a piano, those notes would be about 15 cents flatter than the piano (there are 100 cents between semitones).
There are many, many types of tunings, and all of them are a comprosise of some sort, because of the nature of frequencies and how they respond to each other.
Steve

there are 2 different things going on with tunings

1. interval temperament - will it have
'pure thirds' that don;t 'beat', or will
it be tuned exactly like a piano, or guitar..

2. wet/dry

i have never known - exactly what does 'cajun standard' refer to - intervals, or 'humidity'?

wle.

It is both, at least that is how it has been explained to me. The two components of Cajun Standard tuning are:

1) Use of the "just" tempered scale intervals.
2) Relatively dry tuned (~5 cents sharp) on the second set of middle reeds.

I am sure that different builders have different opinions on this subject, but this is what I have been told by several of them. They don't all use the same terminology, but that is what it boils down to.

-David

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