source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:02:48 -0800 Subject: Re: Reply to Gary Morrison From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@CompuServe.COM> > >Try for example tuning up a synthesizer > >to 12 steps per 3:2 and play some familiar melodies. > To be fair, Blackwood's book, "The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic > Tunings," only speaks of octave-based tunings. Octave-basis or not really doesn't matter much with regard to what I was pointing out, which is that you can clearly recognize diatonic-like melodic structures even when the large and small melodic step sizes are mashed down by a factor of ~1.6, but that doing so utterly pulverizes diatonic harmony. > Which is why they are considered meantone tunings. What's curious about > that? Sorry, I read that wrong. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:16 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04315; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:03:44 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02849 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA14839; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:03:42 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:03:42 -0800 Message-Id: <961030150110_71670.2576_HHB68-11@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu