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semantics re: "meantone"

🔗monz@juno.com (Joseph L Monzo)

5/19/1998 1:54:16 PM
[Graham Breed:]
> I use "meantone" exclusively and unambiguously to mean
> scales with no 81/80. This is a standard usage, at least
> on this list. At two syllables, it's also the most efficient
> way of expressing that concept.
>
> I assume an argument for meantone is also for 31-equal.

OK - no argument from me on this. After having worked
so many years in JI and prime-factoring, I guess having
to defend concepts that I've come to think of as obvious
has made me "more in tune" to semantic differences
("micro-differences"? :) in language.

Joseph L. Monzo
monz@juno.com


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