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RE: [tuning] Re: Web site update

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

5/17/2000 1:18:13 PM

>You will recall that
>I'm pretty content with "grounding" to 12-tET, though I know you
>disagree!

Well, for most 19th century music, it probably makes very little difference,
while for most 16th-17th century music, coming up with an adaptive JI
rendition, it could reduce the retuning motions by almost a factor of 3,
since the grounding would be close to a 1/4-comma meantone tuning.

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

5/18/2000 10:54:54 AM

>And grounding to 12 COFT'd notes might just be the best that is possible
>within those constraints, Dave Keenan's objections notwithstanding.

Exactly.