Just Tuning - definition

The Early Music list has just been informed, with the Harvard
Dictionary of music as authority, that Just Tuning is "any
tuning that incorporates five or more acoustically pure types
of intervals within the octave." That means, of course, that
Pythagorean and 1/4-comma meantone, and, for that matter, most
early temperaments, are Just Tunings! Somehow, I don't think
that is the definition that JI advocates use today.

Would readers email me a short answer to two questions:
1) if the form of the Harvard definition is adequate, with what
number would you replace their number five?
2) if the definition is inadequate in form, what is the minimum
set of additional criteria you have to call something a just
tuning?

I'll summarize the answers to this list, and to the early music
crowd, without attributions. Thanks for your answers.

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John Sankey bf250@freenet.carleton.ca
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