Re: [tuning] Digest Number 839

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 01:59:56 -0400
> From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>
>Subject: RE: Re: perceived consonance, and Kolinski's stretch tun ing
>
>Paolo wrote,
>
> >I hope Neil "Hstick" (or his friend John Starrett) can find the time
> >to offer thoughts on this as Hstick plays 19t-ET and 31t-ET guitars.
>
>I personally think that 19-tET and 31-tET major thirds, and the near-just
>major thirds on my 22-tET guitar, are more consonant than 12-tET or any
>sharper major thirds.

I kinda wish I'm there to see and hear it in person, but this sounds like on your 22-tET guitar, you don't feel a need for "stretch tuning". Is this correct? Or is this more dictated by individual taste regarding 3rds?

I guess I haven't noticed any issues on my own guitar regarding 3rds because it's fretless and I don't really use a lot of open string notes on it.

Thanks,
Paolo
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Paolo wrote,

>I kinda wish I'm there to see and hear it in person, but this sounds like
on
>your 22-tET guitar, you don't feel a need for "stretch tuning". Is this
>correct?

Well, certainly a bit of stretching would make the major thirds better,
unlike 12-tET, where it makes them worse. But the fifths in 22-tET are
already sharp, and I don't want to make them even sharper by stretching.
Only on the high notes on my low B string (it's a 7-string) is inharmonicity
really a problem -- but I don't normally play there anyway.

>Or is this more dictated by individual taste regarding 3rds?

The latter is what I'm trying to imply. Certainly any use of ET for certain
just intervals would imply a certain ideal amount of stretching, even with
perfectly harmonic timbres. But it sounds like your friend is looking
specifically for 12-tET-like thirds, not just ones.