genewardsmith

gene,

How is it possible that a deep analyst like you don´t realize that the true octave is a wonderful gift from destiny?
Steve Parker opposes to give out this fantastic finding.

He said: <explain to me why I should not accept a 2/1
octave by definition?
> I AGREE WITH HIM, --HE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT A 2/1 OCTAVE BY DEFINITION!!!.

---- Your first paragraph is a general phrase, it is OK.
---- Your second paragraph deals with tunings and true tunings, not a word about the octave.

Gene, I ask you to devote no more than one hour of your time to examine the four files I added since July 12. I suggest you to start the wide field of applications of the true octave, with your knowledges and experience you are one of the needed men to achieve these targets. I am an old man that already needs to rest instead of facing contrarieties like those I have with Steve Parker.

Thanks
Mario
July, 24
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Re: The true octave

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Steve Parker <steve@...> wrote:

> Can someone - anyone - explain to me why I should not accept a 2/1
> octave by definition?
> Another tuning of the octave may sound nice, have cute mathematical
> properties or some other utility, but as it stands 2/1 'defines' an
> octave.
> Either way stop calling it 'true'.

2/1 is a JI octave by definition. Like any other JI interval, it can be detuned,
either as a part of a regular temperament tuning or irregularly. If you detune
it regularly, you've now got a certain fixed tuning for it, just as detunintg
3/2 to 700 cents gives you a
new fixed tuning for that. Calling the tempered octave "true" is a bit like a
fervent believer in 12 equal calling 700 cents true, I suppose.

Some people like to announce the One True Tuning, which for some people can
change from day to day and with other people seems fixed for their lifetime.
It's just a psychological fact of life in the alternative tuning world, one
which sometimes leads to friction since no one else ever seems to climb aboard
the One True Tuning train of any of these proposals.