source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 05:40:58 -0800 Subject: Re: 12-Like From: Gary <71670.2576@compuserve.com> Brian sez: > By far the most interesting equal temperaments > are those which have *little or nothing* in common with > traditional Pythagorean and 5-limit tunings. I'm not sure if I would go so far as to use the phrase "by far", but I understand what Brian is getting at here. Over all, I tend to agree. But I would like to put two caveats on that: First, I found Paul's XH article to be very much worth reading, and a well thought-out systemization of meaningful concepts (actually, I'm not quite done reading it yet). I have no doubt that Brian appreciates the value of Paul's article as well, despite his constructive criticism. Second, although my work with wildly 88CET and two other wildly nontraditional tunings has taught me dramatically the value of "starting over", I have found one very strong value from the 12-like tunings: Quite often people pay more attention if you present them with a composition that goes something like... "Normal Normal Normal Huh?! Normal Normal Normal Eeewww!" rather than... "Huh? Huh? Hmmmm.. What? Come again? Mmmmm? Say what?" Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 16:53 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA04319; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 07:53:21 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 07:53:21 -0800 Message-Id: <0099BF16A966B711.63D0@ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu