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Re: What meens " cajun standart "

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

what does 'cajun standard' refer to - intervals, or 'humidity'?

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.

intervals, or 'humidity'? - both

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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