source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:30:04 +0200 Subject: RE: Why x-ET? From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) >Do you >mean that the larger the number of equal divisions of a given interval, the >more musically useful the resulting scale? If so, why? I think it's fair to say that, with larger numbers of steps per octave, there are fewer shades of chromaticism to choose from. I noticed that effect when I first tried 10TET. But I don't think that it's quite appropriate to take that idea too far. I'm not sure that 53TET, for example, will prove all that much more expressive than 41TET (although I'm largely speculating there). And of course the more pitches you put into an octave's span, the more cumbersome the tuning becomes to use. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 14 May 1997 13:31 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01619; Wed, 14 May 1997 13:31:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:31:05 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01617 Received: (qmail 14219 invoked from network); 14 May 1997 11:31:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 May 1997 11:31:01 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu