source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:47:27 +0200 Subject: Re: Perishing Logic From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >>Meanwhile, fretted instruments have used ET almost exclusively >>throughout their history, >>because of the difficulty of frets needing to be in different >>places from one string to the next. >yet your logic falls apart here. Fretting in meantone is quite practical >with frets placed right across the board. I use this fretting >system myself for a negative meantone. How do you tune your open strings? That works if you're willing to change the choice of open-string pitches, or go well beyond 12 steps per octave. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:56 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09794; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:57:05 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:57:05 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10410 Received: (qmail 7155 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1997 05:00:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jul 1997 05:00:25 -0000 Message-Id: <970714005518_-90649418@emout05.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu