source file: mills2.txt Subject: Re: In defense of Rasch. From: Aleksander Frosztega >(b) Actually, Jorgenson seems a more persuasive rebuttal to Rasch than >anything else I've seen in this discussion. How could they use e.t. if >they were unable to tune it? (And in my experience it's a very touchy >thing. The intervals are stretched to the limit of tolerance; get one >of them wrong & it sounds like hell. I use a strobe.) Jorgensen's argument that ET could not have been tuned in the 18th century is specious. I've addressed this issue in another posting, so I won't take up more band width by repeating myself. Although my own ET is not that hot, I know other people, and some of them are on this List, that can tune good ET by ear. Is it acoustically perfect? Maybe not. Does it, for all intensive purposes, pass as ET? Absolutely. Aleksander Frosztega BTW: When I was Eric Herz's tuning assistant at the New England Conservatory in Boston, I routinely witnessed him tuning very good ET by ear (on a French double) in 20 minutes. People that say that it can't be done don't know what they're talking about. Including Jorgensen. ------------------------------------------------------- Aleksander Frosztega "Odi summusos; proinde aperte University of Utrecht dice quid sit quod times." The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------- Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:19 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id IAA20576; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 08:19:24 -0700 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 08:19:24 -0700 Message-Id: <9509250818.aa26424@cyber.cyber.net> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu