Help! I've slipped on a comma and I can't get up!

(re-sent due to dissappearance of issue #1065)

Marion wrote:
> Actually I have played with JI scales that have notes that are
> close enough that you probably couldn't hear the difference if
> the notes were sounded in isolation. But if I sound one note,
> and then introduce other notes from some consonant triad, and
> then sound the second, close note and then introduce notes from a
> triad consonant with the second note, I get an effect that is
> very like a musical pun.

Daniel Wolf wrote:
> The
> just environment may require altering the tonal reference points (e.g.
> slipping commas), while each temperament favors particular sets of puns.

Are these different descriptions of the same thing? That is, is "slipped
comma" a definition for the method Marion described above?

David J. Finnamore
Just tune it!

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