For example...

>If you have a way of tuning intervals with 0.1 cent precision, hold one
>note constant and sweep the other one through this range. Without
>looking, stop the sweep where you hear 3-ness. Do the same for 7-ness,
>and, if you believe in such things, 13-ness, 17-ness, 19-ness, 23-ness,
>29-ness, 31-ness, etc.

Dude. You're doing that thing again where you switch examples on me. The
original one is about a difference of 22 cents. Now this one is about
differences of .2 cents. The original was 3 vs. 5 limit- this one about 13
vs. 41 limit.

I said on two occasions that the ness's fall off the more times you stack
an interval, especially when the stacking brings one interval close in size
to another. But I said that the 81/64 was not close enough to the 5/4 to
erase the 3 for me, and this is true, and no tricky example will allow me
to hear otherwise.

I said on one occasion that the nesses probably come in different strengths
at different limits. So far, I can only identify a ness up to 11 (it's
dangerous and tropical), but I'm still weak on it; I only have a firm feel
up to 7 (and that's all I listed in my original ness list). And tho I
can't hear a 17-ness, I don't dis-believe in it. I just say it's outside
my experience.

Lastly, I wonder if you'd care try this example using odd limits.

Carl




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