source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:59:18 -0700 Subject: RE: Another post from McLaren From: PAULE >In fact 19-TET is the most common, >almost the closest in sound to 12-TET of the "teen" >temperaments (22-TET is closer), and perhaps the >easiest to use of the < 20 TET equal temperaments. I agree completely, except that it's difficult to say that 22-TET is closer. The standard tonal repertory sounds good - if not better - in 19-TET. 22-TET fails to preserve normal diatonic relationships, and cannot be notated with the conventional symbols. Performing Bach or Mozart in 19 is trivial, while getting them to sound good in 22 would be a difficult task. That doesn't prevent 22 from being my favorite tuning! I'll give Brian the benefit of the doubt and assume he was concerned stricly with the sound of consonant triads. 19 and 22 are both much smoother than 12, but 19 is the smoothest. In that sense, 22 is closer than 19 to 12. But in that sense, 15 is even closer to 12 (15 is slightly less smooth than 12). Is 22 a teen? Is 24 the first "adult" temperament? If so, I've got two days to grow up. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 00:25 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA03072; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:25:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:25:27 -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