source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:58:25 +0200 Subject: Re: Temperaments/tyros/neophytes From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >>I have never heard a string >>quartet play in 12 TET. They often say that is what they are doing, but they >>always fall into a more tonally centered Pythagorean as they play. Who is >>going to accept a constant 14 cent wide major3rd everwhere, in all keys, in a >>string quartet? Well.... Every careful study I've heard of tuning in real musical practice on indefinite-pitched instruments, concludes that performers rarely follow any one single tuning formula accurately and consistently. Well-known formulas, like 5:4 major thirds for example, certainly do get used in spots though. >Anyone who hears it played with such wide vibrato that they can't tell >how wide the 3rds are. Is it just coincidence that the more prevalent >12TET has become the more string players and singers have used vibrato? The conventional string-player's wisdom - whether true or not - is that people's ears home in on the highest pitch in a vibrato pattern. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:15 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA11270; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:15:31 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:15:31 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA11264 Received: (qmail 8257 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1997 14:48:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jun 1997 14:48:15 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu