source file: m1397.txt
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:51:00 -0500

Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1396

From: "jloffink" <jloffink@pdq.net>

> From: Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com>
> 
> ... The question of what that
> resolution should be can be best answered on the basis of finding a large

> equal temperament in which the limit you want to work in is consistantly
> represented. 
> 
> Since many manufacturers will probably continue to specify tunings in
terms
> of deviations from 12tet pitch classes, it would probably be best to
lobby
> on the basis of two large equal temperaments, one chose entirely on the
> basis of prime consistancy and another on this basis, but limited to
those
> temperaments divisible by 12.

You made some valid points, but since the MIDI Tuning Standard is already
in divisions of 2^n, I think it would be a bad idea to promote some other
division.  I was more interested in the desired frequency resolution.  

John Loffink
jloffink@pdq.net