source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:33:09 -0800 Subject: Re: historical temperaments,modern ears From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> > Very interesting responses. The guitar players all love the increased > harmony available in the purer keys. ( actually, any key with less than 4 > accidentals). Just as a side note, for most keys with less than 4 accidentals, even quarter-comma meantone (12 tone per octave that is) would probably work fairly well. I have had definite, but limited, exposure to well temperaments. I personally have come to the conclusion that the differences between most well temperaments and 12TET are certainly significant, but ultimately not all THAT big. Then again, along with all of the other factors - timbre, musical style, tempo, and others - there's another factor you need to consider in weighing answers from tuning listers: How wildly different from 12TET are the tunings they've dealt with? In my case, they've been pretty darned different. To an American, Arabic and Eskimo culture seem pretty different, but to a Martian the difference would seem real subtle! Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:38 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA25510; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:38:03 -0800 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:38:03 -0800 Message-Id: <951201053032_71670.2576_HHB46-7@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu