Peterson Strobe Center 5000-II User Manual

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Key #1 calls up the Setup Menu.
Key #2 toggles the current Image Clarifier setting shown
on the third line of the LCD screen.

Key #1 calls up the additional option menus.
Key #2 proceeds to the File Menu screen
Key #3 returns the tuner to the Run Mode.
Key #4 is for running factory diagnostics.

Key #1 calls up the Temperament Menu.
Key #2 calls up the Stretch Menu
Key #4 returns to the Setup Menu.

Because the (twelfth root of two) mathematical ratios of equal temperament are not exactly in tune (in both the scientific and
historic sense of whole number ratios between all the twelve musical intervals in the chromatic scale - and particularly for
major thirds, fourths and fifths), many performers of fixed tuned instruments, such as harpsichords and organs, prefer to have
the instrument tuned so that certain keys and intervals sound more perfectly in tune and "sweeter" to their ears and those of
the audience.

Many musical history scholars claim that music composed prior to 1850 should be performed with historically specific
non-equal temperaments so that contemporary performances of this music will sound more exact to the audible intentions
of the composers. Tuning an instrument so that a particular key, or certain keys, sound in distinctly good tune while other
keys sound somewhat more roughly in tune (or have one or more completely unacceptable "wolf" keys) is known as tuning
in non-equal temperament. Use the following steps to select a non-equal temperament from the preprogrammed tables in
the Strobe Center 5000:

KEY=C
A=440 00 ¢
HI
SETUP IMAG

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a. Press the #1 Function key to access the Setup Menu.

SETUP MENU

PLEASE SELECT MODE

OPTN FILE RUN DIAG

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b. From the Setup Menu, press the #2 Function Key named FILE. You will now see the display screen for the File

Menu:

FILE MENU
PLEASE SELECT MODE

TMPR STRCH SETUP

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c. Press the #1 Function Key to see the Temperament Menu:

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