Another reply to Jose Manuel Leon

From: Peter Mulkers <P.Mulkers@gmx.net>

Jose,

I'm a newbee in this tuninglist as well and I've been lurking now for two
weeks. Your reaction is the first that make sense to me. You're a rebel.
I neither like tunings nor scales. To be more precise: I don't like a
limited number of different tones to use in a piece of music.

In mine opinion, Just Intonated tones have to be recalculated at each very
moment. Depending on:
1. Melody: what happens before, what's gonna happen afterwards.
2. Harmony: what's happening on the moment itself.
With a limited number of tones you get stuck when the piece of music evolve.
Because, it seems to me, melody runs on other tuningrules than harmony..

I see one important reason to choose for a limited number of tones:
It's the property of most musical instruments. They are pretuned whit fixed
tones. ET12 or JI, it doesn't matter. The number is fixed en limited.

So why not determine first how a piece of music should sound like and
afterwards take the limitation of the instrument in count.

Acoustics, physics and maths.are the base to start from to create a new
theory. Let's start from zero, as today's music has never exist.

I think you are right. This is the wrong list. If you ever find the right
one, please let me know. I'll join.

Peter