What would become of 12+19?

One of the biggest problems if more different systems of tuning would become popular with a larger crowd of musicians,are the conflicts that would occur when people using different tunings meet and attempt to play together.No doubt they can't always keep to one and the same(tuning system)for these events,rather they will just have to stick to somehow interpreting what the other plays in their own tuning.So what will become of that,say 12 and 19 tone equal instruments combining,in a longer drawn musical sense?

I don't know.I'm not particularly interested in combining multiple systems myself-(that's because i'm still exploring the perplexing enough possibilites of individual systems)but no doubt it will happen,and who knows what may come?We'll just see what will happen with it,in a longer perspective...

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Mats wrote:

> One of the biggest problems if more different systems of tuning would
> become popular with a larger crowd of musicians,are the conflicts that
> would occur when people using different tunings meet and attempt to
> play together.No doubt they can't always keep to one and the
> same(tuning system)for these events,rather they will just have to stick
> to somehow interpreting what the other plays in their own tuning.So
> what will become of that,say 12 and 19 tone equal instruments
> combining,in a longer drawn musical sense?

The Fleetwood Mac cover I put in the Files section has the bass and brass
playing the same 9-limit notes but in different temperaments. No problem
to my ears. My Magic temperament demo at
<http://x31eq.com/magicpump.mp3> varies the tuning between and
beyond 19- and 22-equal, not perfectly in synch between instruments, also
without problems. So maybe you could get away with 12 and 19 together. I
haven't tried because meantones a bit mundane for me right now :-)

A lot depends on how important consonance is. If you can write in
13-equal, you can write in 13-equal with something else at the same time,
as Dan seems to have demonstrated. One trick is to get all instruments to
agree on the tonic, so that at least the resolutions will work.

Graham