Brett Barbaro pseudonym

>> Hi Brett,
>>
>> At least I'll make sure to get the name right this time:).

> You didn't, through no fault of your own. I haven't signed my
> messages, but my name is Paul Erlich. Though I was previously posting
> only from my office, I wanted to participate from home as well, so I
> signed up through my roommate's computer.

Paul, you sly dog! I want to hear now from the real Brett Barbaro:
does he prefer mean-tone or adaptive JI?

JdL

John A. deLaubenfels wrote:

>>> Hi Brett,
>>>
>>> At least I'll make sure to get the name right this time:).
>
>> You didn't, through no fault of your own. I haven't signed my
>> messages, but my name is Paul Erlich. Though I was previously posting
>> only from my office, I wanted to participate from home as well, so I
>> signed up through my roommate's computer.
>
>Paul, you sly dog! I want to hear now from the real Brett Barbaro:
>does he prefer mean-tone or adaptive JI?

The real Brett knows very little about tuning but was not happy with the
inability to play Ab chords on my piano (tuned in meantone), despite the
fact that he immediately noticed and liked the sound of the purer chords.
However, the piano is still in meantone, though the tuning is deteriorating
(due in part to Brett's daily, aggressive playing). I think some version of
the Lumma/Keenan tuning will be next.

Brett is into techno music and so likes the sound of the overtone series
(familiar to him from all the analog-synth-style filter sweeps). He may
reprogram his Roland Groovebox to a 12-tone JI for future Mad Duxx projects,
if he ever gets around to it.

As for me, I think the ideal tuning for diatonic triadic music would be a
compromise between adaptive JI and meantone, closer to adaptive JI (but not
one based on 12-tET). I would take all the "pains" you listed and add the
"pain" of not having simultaneities in JI, which would have to be balanced
against all the other pains. In addition, I think truly exact JI is painful
due to potential frequency cancellations, but that's rarely a concern with
current equipment (which rarely achieves truly exact JI anyway).