source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 16:46:13 +0200 Subject: JI vs. ET From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) By the way, Dave Hill recently did a semiformal study of preferences between just intonation and equal-temperament, the subjects being a set of junior-high and high-school band-campers at Florida State University. He had more than a thousand respondents. Some of you might be interested in asking him more details on his findings. They struck me as interesting, and I took the same test as well. Here's my short summary from reading his reports (although you should probably hear it from Dave himself): 1. Across all responses, there was a strong preference for ET, 2. Among those who scored highest on the raw pitch-acuity section of the test, there was strong preference for JI. (The pitch acuity section had a series of pairs of tones separated by a comma, 13 cents, a quarter comma, and a skhisma, and the respondents were asked to state whether the second pitch was lower or higher than the first.) 3. Many of those who preferred JI seemed to have more specific reasons, and just generally more thoughtful responses. His study also included comments about the nature of their preference either way - whether they preferred it, for example, for having a "richer sound". Dave Hill's address is "ascend11@aol.com". SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net Subject: Re: testing an experimental tuning program PostedDate: 01-09-97 05:07:06 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 01-09-97 17:17:25-01-09-97 17:38:45,01-09-97 17:38:27-01-09-97 17:38:29 DeliveredDate: 01-09-97 17:38:29 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) with SMTP id C1256505.0053F85A; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 17:17:10 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10252; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 05:07:06 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 05:07:06 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09594 Received: (qmail 21014 invoked from network); 1 Sep 1997 03:07:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Sep 1997 03:07:02 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu