source file: m1399.txt Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 15:10:05 -0400 Subject: RE: JI Tuning Resolution From: "Paul H. Erlich" Ken Wauchope wrote, >Some time back I did some audio experiments to determine the extent to >which I could actually discriminate beating in just intervals. >Listening to rather loud synthesized sawtooth waves through headphones >at about 440Hz, That's amazing! I did the exact same experiment many years ago. I swept through all the intervals within an octave, and wrote down all the points at which beating stopped. >I found that the limit of my discrimination was at the >19 limit -- for example I could manage to tune a 19/13 by eliminating >beats, but not a 21/13. Very close to my results! The most complex ratio I stopped at was 17/13.