source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 21:20:49 +0200 Subject: Re: Point of Well Temperaments From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >In ANY of the frequently used well-tempered >systems, F major is the most in-tune key with C and G close seconds. The >less used keys are much more out-of-tune, yet, as required by the >well-tempered philosophy, usable. Then a guess it comes down to the connotations and denotations of admittedly vague phrase "about equally". My main goal was to express that philosophy of all keys being what you aptly called "usable". What I was including in the category of FAILING to be "about equally well in tune" was of the nature of a meantone wolf fifth. I'm personally more interested in tunings that produce much less subtle pitch deviations from 12TET, like 9:7s, 11:9s, 7:6s, 7:4s, and 11:6s for example. So although I have personally experienced the different feelings that well-temperaments have across various keys, general trends like gradually getting more exotic as you deviate from C Major I have not noticed before. I'll try them out on my ASR-10 in that light. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 21:21 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05416; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 21:21:41 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 21:21:41 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05391 Received: (qmail 16076 invoked from network); 5 Jul 1997 19:21:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jul 1997 19:21:18 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu