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?
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
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.