Re: [MMM] Re: 29-HTT Improvisation -- with a wrong note!!!

Hi Gene!
I am not trying to give you a bad time and others stop at 13 also. I
thought i would ask why you stop here. It is interesting to me that
Helmholtz used the 17 to explain the full diminished, yet no one seem
inclined to go this high.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> --- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "George D. Secor"
> <gdsecor@y...> wrote:
>
> > P.S. - Please don't get the impression that I'm averse to using JI.
> > While I prefer temperaments for a 13 prime limit (the lowest limit I
> > care to use), I feel that JI really starts to shine at higher prime
> > limits, where I would say that it outclasses all temperaments.
>
> This is funny--13 is the highest prime limit I care to use. My basic
> focus is 7. As for outclassing all temperaments, as n-->oo n-et-->JI.
>
>
>

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