source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:19:27 +0100 Subject: useless temperaments From: Paul Rapoport I don't agree with G. Gibson either. Distinguishing notes, intervals, melodies, and so on in many systems with smaller intervals than 19-tET is not a problem in many contexts. Perhaps he meant something else and would clarify. To say 22-tET is useless suggests only that he has never used it. Another clarification, perhaps? Many people have declared of no interest various tunings simply because they don't fit their requirements. The requirements aren't universal. In his 1973 book, for example, Eric Regener dismissed all positive tunings (P5 greater than 700 cents) because of a non-universal assumption about "regular" tunings. This doesn't invalidate the rest of his book, because you can take or leave his approach on that matter. Paul Rapoport SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: A440A Subject: Chestnut help...... PostedDate: 08-12-97 01:35:56 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $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: 08-12-97 01:34:04-08-12-97 01:34:05,08-12-97 01:33:53-08-12-97 01:33:54 DeliveredDate: 08-12-97 01:33:54 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256567.00031D00; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:34:00 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09021; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:35:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:35:56 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09025 Received: (qmail 1243 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1997 16:35:46 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 1997 16:35:46 -0800 Message-Id: <57c03573.348b3ef8@aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu