RE: An Evening with Erlich

OK, I guess this one was directly addressing me as well!

>You do go up to 210 TET or something at one point in the paper, searching
>for a better tuning for the decatonic scales. But you don't say much on
>what means you used to search this tunings.

A computer. Is there anything else that seems ambiguous?

>>Well, the only real problem in ET's over 34/oct is that consistency is
>>not really relevant anymore, since there might be an adequate
>>approximation for a given interval which is not the closest
>>approximation.

>This is the real meat of my question about the 1% thing. What does it mean
>"adequate"? Certainly you don't claim that all scales over 35 sound alike...

No, certainly not alike. But I guess I should have said something in the
paper about how in 12-tone equal temperament there is one and only one
way of approximating any consonant ratio, and that is a property that
adds a degree of simplicity that musicians mayt be happy to give up.