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RE: [tuning] Re: Microtonal Synthesis and octave/non-octave tunin g issues

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

1/1/2001 1:51:48 PM

I wrote,

>>I don't know . . . Daniel Wolf is fond of pointing out that in 768,
the best
>>approximation of 3/2, doubled, does not equal the best approximation
of 9/4.
>>In other words, it's not consistent in the 9-limit. Meanwhile, 1200-
tET is
>>consistent in the 9-limit.

Jacky replied to the effect that the errors here are so small as to actually
be beneficial.

Jacky -- I agree, but what I was objecting to was that you seemed to be
saying that 768 gave exceptionally good JI approximations, better that 1200
(and 1024, was it?).