source file: m1410.txt
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 16:09:22 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re:  TUNING digest 1404

From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

>   Now obviously I'm excluding from that two sorts of instruments:
>1.  Explicitly microtonal instruments from very recent times, like the guitars
>    that many of we tuning-listers have explicitly refretted.
>2.  Systematic imprecision, such as using the "rule of the 18th" to place frets
>    rather than the actual 12th root of two, or insufficient bridge or nut
>    corrections.

   Hopefully obviously, I'm also excluding mistakes, imprecision of
manufacture, wear and tear on the instruments, and other sources of
randomness.