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Carl,
As one who played horn for most of my life before adding harp (which is a wonderful relief as a wrong note you can fake to sound decent on harp, not horn), I think that he was just trying to make sure the horn was in tune to itself (there are 7 slides you can adjust in the horn BESIDES the overall tuning slide). Perhaps this is equal temperament, an attempt to keep all of the harmonics for each valve in line when playing a scale. However, as kreig writes, on a wind instrument or string instrument, the ability to adjust intonation is so extreme that I believe the true “temperament” would be that of the individual.
That is the issue I am having with harp vs wind. It drives me crazy that one string sounds good in one chord and not another. Do you folks ever find yourself tuning your harp differently depending on what piece or group you may be playing with? Do you think there are advantages to learning to tune by ear (what is the trick? octaves, fifths and fourths?) rather than electric tuner?
