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tone deaf...

🔗William Sethares <sethares@...>

2/29/1996 5:48:20 AM
Gary Commented:

one of the generals of the American Civil War
... was quoted as saying that he recognized
only two tunes: One of them was Yankee
Doodle, and the other, he said, was not.

Perhaps if ammended, this would apply to
most everyone:

I recognize the sound of only two tunings -
one is 12-tone equal-temperament and the
other is not.


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