Reply to Bob Lee

>As odd as it may seem, I must agree with Gregg Gibson that most traditional
>Western music requires temperament, not necessarily always ET but necessarily
>a meantone temperament, to adequately perform it. As much fun, and as
>musically appropriate, it can be to use a major scale with two 2nd degrees or
>two 6th degrees, separated by a comma, there is certainly much music for
>which the integrity of the diatonic scale as a set of discrete pitches is
>important, and the thematic development that occurs in this music would be
>robbed of some of its logic and beauty if certain pitches had to be adjusted
>in the middle of playing them in order to preserve JI. If the pitches were
>not adjusted in the midst of playing them, the key of a typical piece of
>classical music would drift, usually downwards, by several commas by the time
>the piece was completed. Sometimes a chord like GBDEA occurs, not only in
>passing in music but also in tuning the open strings of a slide guitar, and
>the only way for all the consonant intervals to sound good is to use a
>meantone temperament. Strict JI will not work (try it!). JI is but one tuning
>system (actually, several) and has its defects just like any other.


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