source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:05:20 -0700 Subject: Darreg Disc Error: track 3 mislabelled From: PAULE Gary M. wrote: >But anyway, I just listened to the track Paul mentioned, and I think he's >right! I suspect that it's 19TET though. The final chord pretty much seems >to >rule out 17. But I think I'll have to ... "tenuously" I'll say ... disagree >with his assessment of the opening minor third. I definitely know what he >means >by it sounding a little "off", but I suspect that that's an aberation of the >carbon-arc-lamp brightness timbre of that particular Korg patch. I suspect >that >it's 19 because, unless I've gone deaf, I don't hear a shred of beating in it. >And with that much high-harmonic content I would expect it to sound like >phase-shift city if it were off by any appreciable amount from just. Not only does that minor third sound wide from just, but it also beats just under 3 times per second. Gary, maybe you should listen to it on a different stereo system, this beating is not hard to hear. The lower note of the minor third is about a middle d#, and a little calculation shows that the beat frequency for a 22-tet minor third in this register is 2.5 Hz. Considering that this was a Korg, the disrepancy is forgivable -- when the minor third moves down a semitone, the beat frequency falls to just over 2 Hz. Another clue that the piece is in 22 is the melodic division of the major third into two almost-but-not-quite-equal parts, which is impossible in 19. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 23:05 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA04641; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:05:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:05:54 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu