TUNING digest 1151

I knew someone would pounce on my objection to general use of quartertone
and say that syntonic comma should be restricted to 81:80. Thanks, Gary!

However, I disagree. Syntonic comma may be defined algebraically and then
applied to any tuning system in which that formula makes sense. To say,
for example, that 53-tET has no syntonic comma isn't helpful. Sure it's
tempered, but so are all ET intervals, including the perfect fifth, a term
which is not restricted to 3/2 in common usage. What's so special about
81/80?

I know we've been over this before, but I think I'm being consistent. As
far as I'm concerned, anyone is welcome to talk about quartertones in
31-tET; you just won't find them in the tuning.

Any JI term that has an ET equivalent is probably OK to use in the
tempered sense, as long as that use is understood. This is where
"quartertone" is different: it's already a tempered term.

Your turn, Gary.

Paul Rapoport



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In a message dated 97-08-13 15:43:48 EDT,
Denis.Atadan@mvs.udel.edu writes:

> It seems a number of you need a bit more time to get your materials
together.
>
> Originally I put a deadline of a postmark of 15 august 1997. I'm happily
> pushing that back to the 30th of August.

Think about pushing it forward 2 to 4 weeks since:

1. some of our list members are academic and need some
time to get back into the swing of things and.....

2. I'm too busy to do anything until after the Trenton
Avant Guard Festival on Sept 6 where I will be presenting
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harmonic series tuning using harmonics 16-30 and maybe even
29, 31 and possibly even higher.

What's the big rush?

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