reply to Peter Mulkers

Pater Mulkers wrote,

>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.

I would agree with that, with the caveat that we often need an
instrument to create the piece of music in the first place.

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

Why that reaction? It sounds like you'd like to talk about dynamic
tuning algorithms, which many on this list have discussed, and which
many of my discussions have had some bearing upon.