source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:08:42 -0800 Subject: RE: TUNING digest 951 From: PAULE Matt Nathan wrote, >If you had instruments which could provide you as easily with any pitch >as any other, would you still do this? Well, in that case I might not necessarily use equal temperaments, but I might not use just intonation either. For example, for diatonic triadic music I would use meantone temperament, perhaps changing the exact amount of temperament from one section of the piece to another, if it helped the mood get across. I prefer the deviations from just in 12-, 19-, 26-tet, or any other meantone tuning to the comma difficulties of 15-, 22-, 27-tet, or pure JI, when it comes to diatonic triadic music. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:27 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA15097; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:30:54 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA15110 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id SAA25278; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:30:51 -0800 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:30:51 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu