stuff, bye-bye for a bit

I'm going to be taking another computer sabbatical for a bit... I'll
be back when I've got some more music up to blab about. Here's a few
things that caught my eye on the way out the door...

Buddhi Wilcox wrote,

> I suspect that ET will be found to be a contributing factor to the
degradation of health , and general harmonic existence amongst fellow
man.

OK, whatever.

Paul Erlich wrote,

> Why did Woolhouse advocate 19-tET but not 22-tET, which is nearly as
good as 19-tET in the 5-limit? Why did he advocate 31-tET but not
34-tET, <etc.>

Hey, what is this, "Tuning Jeopardy"! I dunno, lets see, 'cause these
tunings hide (or don't have) the syntonic comma like good ol' mister
"ordinary", 12-tET... do I win a prize?

> the familiar diatonic structure and nomenclature that has been
associated with triadic harmony for about 500 years now.

Seems like 500 billion years now -- at least!

--Dan Stearns

I wrote,

> 'cause these tunings hide (or don't have) the syntonic comma like
good ol' mister "ordinary", 12-tET...

BTW, for a good example of 1/3rd comma meantone sounding significantly
unlike mister "ordinary", 12-tET, check out the Froberger excerpt at:

<http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/temperament.html>

A lot of meantone may be "ordinary" in the sense that Joe was meaning
and Paul was pointing to, but certainly not all...

--d.stearns