Bernhard Stopper, Master Piano Maker

Bernhard Stopper delivers high valued software products for the piano business since 1989.  

Facts

1988: Publication (euro piano 3/1988) of the discovery of the 12-twelfths-19-octave-circle as the harmonic-series symmetric 12-tone circle and its derived “Stopperstimmung™, equal temperament based on pure twelfths¹”

1988: Patent pending of a musical instrument based on the Stopperstimmung™.

1989: Introduction of Mensurix string scale software

1990: Master piano maker in ludwigsburg

1991: Symposium “Bozner Treffen: Scales and Harmonies” Bozen, Italy on invitation of Prof. Valentin Braitenberg, Tübingen

2003: Introduction of MiniMens hammer/string simulator

2004: Introduction of Mensurix 5 string scale software including dynamic simulation of hammer/string interaction

2004: discovery of the beat symmetry in the Stopperstimmung™.

2005: Patent pending of the OnlyPure tuning method

2006: Introduction of OnlyPure tuning software for Windows and MacOS X.

2008 Introduction of TUNIC OnlyPure tuning software for PocketPC

Honors

First prize at german tuning contest for piano maker apprentices in 1982

¹(octave + fifth)