Reply to Matt Nathan

Matt Nathan wrote in TUNING digest 951,

>Punning is purposely using the wrong pitch.

Let's say you had a 6th chord, I'm sure we'd both be happy to tune it

1/1 5/4 3/2 5/3.

Okay, now add the 9th. Do you add the 9/8 or the 10/9? The former forms a
yucky 40/27 against the 5/3, and the latter forms the same icky interval
against the 3/2. The best JI solution is to put the whole thing in
Pythagorean, but I like meantone even better, so you have a nice major
third. Anyway, the 9th of this chord is an example of how punning can be
necessary without getting into the aesthetic arguments over comma shifts,
scales as the basis of melody, etc.


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