Is there a Mr. Doty here?

Greetings all,

I have been asked the following question here lately, and can't answer it in
time, perhaps someone here knows

" There must be a book out by a Mr. Doty called something like "Just
Intonation Primer". Do you know the exact title of the book and the full name
of the author, plus eventually the publisher and the year it was published."

If anybody here knows this book, I would appreciate hearing from you.

And where is B. Mclaren?? He was writing some of the most interesting stuff
here on this list. Does he know that??

Regards,
Ed Foote
Precision Piano Works
Nashville, Tn

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>The question about why bother with equal temperaments is welcome. I'd add
>that their structures, and widely differing ones at that, make a
>fascinating musical--and yes, expressive--difference.

I agree with Paul here.

Why look at them? Because they're interesting. Historically 12TET came
about as a necessary compromise. But when you throw open the field to
other numbers of tones per octave, they start becoming interesting for
other reasons.




>Related to this, you
>have true enharmonic equivalent pitches and intervals in equal
>temperaments, which you may get in just systems only by fudging things
>theoretically.

That's also a good point. That, for example, opens you to possibilities
analogous with tritone substitutions.



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