JI doesn't "Work"!

Charles Lucy wrote...

>It is amusing to see the confusion amongst the JI and tuning newbies >there.

You've got to get off somehow!

>They seem to have yet to realise that they are attempting the >impossible.

I wonder if you actually have any concrete idea of what it is you think
these people are all attemping, or why it might be impossible.

>The contradictions and the paradoxes of JI logic are effectively
>demonstrated by the Tantrum temperament toy program. Tantrum was written
>by Stephen Malinowski.

I'll be sure to let him know that you've sent out his name and number with
this entirely bogus interpretation of his software.

>It runs on Mac and can be found from a link on the LucyTuning homepage at
>http://www.ilhawaii.net/~lucy.

God forbid people go directly to Steven's site!

We have repackaged AWE32's being sold as AWE64's, repackaged soap being
sold as special cleaner to take pesticides off vegetables, and now
repackaged 1/3 comma meantone being sold as we're not entirely sure what.

Carl

On Sat, 9 May 1998, Joseph L Monzo wrote:
> >> Don't forget that JI scales require
> >> dog-legged frets.
>
> > Not really, not if you're willing to put up with some commas shifting
> > around as you go from string to string, or octave to octave.
>
> Or if you figure out how to cleverly tune the strings so that
> the frets line up.

Not possible except by tuning the strings at intervals at which the
scale repeats, which is usually octaves, and octaves are rather
impractically wide for a string-to-string interval.

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