source file: m1421.txt
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:54:16 -0400

Subject: semantics re: "meantone"

From: monz@juno.com (Joseph L Monzo)

[Graham Breed:]
> I use "meantone" exclusively and unambiguously to mean
> scales with no 81/80.  This is a standard usage, at least
> on this list.  At two syllables, it's also the most efficient
> way of expressing that concept.
>
> I assume an argument for meantone is also for 31-equal.

OK - no argument from me on this.  After having worked
so many years in JI and prime-factoring,  I guess having
to defend concepts that I've come to think of as obvious
has made me "more in tune"  to semantic differences
("micro-differences"? :) in language.
 
   Joseph L. Monzo
    monz@juno.com
  

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