source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:09:49 +0200 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1073 From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >> ETs and JI can both limit your vocabulary. But limits are good. >That's profound. Thanks. >It may be helpful to think of limits in terms of _arbitrary_ and _necessary_. That's an interesting distinction that I hadn't really thought about before, or at least not as such. I that saying that 19TET and third-comma meantone are identical would be a necessary limitation, in the sense that our ears' pitch resolution is coarse enough that the difference between the two is pointlessly small. And then there are limitations we can place on a tuning system simply as a matter of convenience, or because it makes for an interesting compositional environment. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 18 May 1997 23:10 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05009; Sun, 18 May 1997 23:10:53 +0200 Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 23:10:53 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05012 Received: (qmail 4623 invoked from network); 18 May 1997 21:10:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 May 1997 21:10:49 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu