source file: m1577.txt Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:26:00 -0500 Subject: Re: Comments and a question From: Gary Morrison > I just gave a listen to Igor Darreg's CD (Detwelvulate) Don't forget the "!" at the end. :-) > Is it possible that individuals > who attempt to sing within the constraints of a given scale or temperment, > and find themselves unable to do it, are just singing to a different scale > or temperment that they don't recognize? A kind of "inborn" scale that they > personally "resonate" with. I don't think I've heard that question, as such, having been raised before. There is of course no dirth of psychoacoustic theories aimed at explaining sound perception across all humans as a whole. Some seem more successful than others. But certainly each of us finds certain tunings more interesting than others. It's kinda hard to know how much of that is genetic and how much is environmental. Perhaps a place to start would be to look for any volume peaks or troughs that might or might not exist in the individual's ears across the audible frequency spectrum.