source file: m1412.txt Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 02:58:56 -0700 Subject: 1% From: Carl Lumma >From Paul Erlich's paper on 22 TET.... According to Goldstein, the precision with which frequency information is transmitted to the brain’s central pitch processor is between 0.6% and 1.2% within a certain optimal frequency range. Goldstein, J. L. 1973. “An optimum processor theory for the central formation of the pitch of complex tones.” J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. Vol. 54 p. 1499. The roughness component is somewhat more permissive as to mistuning, but a 1% standard deviation would cause the accuracy to fall below 1/2 at around the point where benign beating begins to gives way to the roughness effects of the critical band. ..Just wondering what this means. It deals with mistuning plus or minus 0.3% - 0.6% of a dyad's logorithmic size? No? What then? And what does it say can percieve about an interval so mistuned? Carl