RE: [tuning] note to Mats on equal temperaments

Joseph wrote,

>> When i have written or tried to write music in unequal scales it
has
always
>> suffered from that certain notes i want to use simply"ain´t
there".This is
>> always the case no matter how much i extend the JI or ET subset
tunings.The
>> only way to avoid this is to go equal.

>Thank you so much, Mats, for your commentary. Actually, I personally
>find this a more persuasive argument for equal temperaments than "it
>has a special sound of its own."

Me too. Another way of saying what Mats is saying, along the lines of
periodicity blocks, is that ETs represent an infinite lattice with a finite
number of notes. Meanwhile, they allow consonances to be connected in ways
that JI doesn't allow (such as I-vi-ii-V-I or I-vi-IV-V-I progressions).