source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:26:39 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 926 From: jinetwk@dnai.com (Just Intonation Network) Op de Coul: >Well, like Huygens was also involved with clocks, Harrison was also >involved with tuning. His temperament has a fifth of 695.493 cents, >almost 3/10-comma meantone. As such it offers a compromise between >good minor thirds and good major thirds with the minor thirds about >twice as good. The fifths are rather rough. This is none other than the tuning that Charles Lucy has attached his name to and has been trying to sell as a musical panacea for the past several years. David B. Doty jinetwk@dnai.com Just Intonation Network http://www.dnai.com/~jinetwk Phone:(415) 824-5325 535 Stevenson Street FAX: (415) 864-8726 San Francisco, CA 94103 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:28 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05201; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:30:54 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05196 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id XAA16531; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:30:51 -0800 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 23:30:51 -0800 Message-Id: <199612160229_MC1-D31-1EBC@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu