source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:29:58 -0800 Subject: Reply to Gary Morrison From: PAULE >> to my ear, Blackwood's >> comment that a diatonic scale will sound "recognizable" if it follows the >> standard pattern of 2 large intervals, one small, three large, and one small >> seems correct. >Try for example tuning up a synthesizer >to 12 steps per 3:2 and play some familiar melodies. To be fair, Blackwood's book, "The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings," only speaks of octave-based tunings. I highly recommend this book, but none of the math is as complicated as it looks. >> schismatic temperaments should refer >> only to those with fifths larger than 700 cents. Otherwise, the diatonic >> thirds are purer than the schismatic thirds, and the tuning is better >> characterized as a meantone temperament >That strikes me as a curious comment considering that third-, quarter-, >fifth-, and sixth-comma meantone all have fifths smaller than 700c. Which is why they are considered meantone tunings. What's curious about that? Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:04 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20575; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:04:37 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20454 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id JAA21340; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:04:35 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:04:35 -0800 Message-Id: <03961028170230/0005695065PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu