source file: mills3.txt Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 01:26:13 +0100 Subject: Re: 19, 22, 29, 41, 53 : 12 and multiples From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) > Regarding 19TET in particular, perhaps it is the last temperment which > preserves "sameness" of the "big" and "small" major seconds (9:8, 10:9). Perhaps this isn't very important (or maybe it is), but this strikes me as a strange way to think of it. The historical and probably psychoacoustic basis of Western tuning is Ptolemaic JI, which has two different sizes of whole step. There is therefore no meaning to preserving an abstraction that represents those two intervals identically. You can't preserve something ahistorical. Forgive me however, if I'm nitpicking an off-the-cuff phraseology of just a little side thought. If on the other hand this is closer to a succinct and carefully-chosen summary of a basic tuning philosophy, then I suggest rethinking that idea. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) Subject: Re: Tuning Standards? PostedDate: 27-12-97 03:40:10 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: 27-12-97 03:37:57-27-12-97 03:37:58,27-12-97 03:37:25-27-12-97 03:37:25 DeliveredDate: 27-12-97 03:37:25 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 C125657A.000E7228; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:39:43 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA26091; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:40:10 +0100 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:40:10 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA26088 Received: (qmail 17813 invoked from network); 26 Dec 1997 18:40:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Dec 1997 18:40:05 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu