RE: [tuning] "DJ" Wolf's experiment, con't.

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

>Hi Paul...

>This is what I'm not getting. Why is the Utonal chord sounding like
>4:5:6:7:9??

Because it's so close to that -- two of the notes are 50 cents off, and
three of the notes are already there.

>Is this what it's SUPPOSED to sound like??

Well, not according to dualistic theories like Partch's. But since our
central pitch processor tend to fit things into harmonic series and not
subharmonic series, you tend to hear the chord in terms of the former -- as
a dissonant version of 4:5:6:7:9.

>And I take it
>the chords are NOT supposed to be identical, as I surmised -- you
>mention a 50 cents shift that I was not hearing...

Exactly:

9/8-------9/8
9/5-(50¢)-7/4
3/2-------3/2
9/7-(50¢)-5/4
1/1-------1/1

>And the "high pitch" that is the "fundamental" of the Utonal series, is
>that the very tiny, extremely high tone in the first example??

Do you hear it in the sine wave example? I sure don't.

>That
>reminds me of the John Cage tone "our own nervous system in
>operation..."

I'll reserve comment until I'm sure whether you were referring to the sine
wave example or the sawtooth example (Joseph?)