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RE: [tuning] Re: Subminor and supermajor (was: Graylessness and l imit)

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

11/22/2000 1:29:36 PM

Monz wrote,

>The point I found most interesting was that
>75/64 is much closer in frequency to 7/6 than to 19/16 - both
>of which I tried first - but it sounds far more different (to my
>ears) from the former than from the latter. I never did figure
>out how to explain that.

One would expect that 7/6 would sound "locked" (i.e., exhibit "periodicity
buzz") while the other two intervals would not (19/16 would only as part of
a much larger otonal chord).